Tami Tamir

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Tamar (Tami) Tamir
Born1968
Alma mater Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Known forApproximation algorithms, algorithmic mechanism design
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
Institutions Reichman University
Doctoral advisor Hadas Shachnai

Tamar (Tami) Tamir (born 1968) is an Israeli computer scientist specializing in approximation algorithms and algorithmic mechanism design, especially for problems in resource allocation, scheduling, and packing problems. She is a professor in the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science of Reichman University. [1]

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Education and career

Tamir was born in 1968, and graduated in 1992 from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in computer science. She continued at the Technion for graduate study, earning a master's degree in 1995 and completing her Ph.D. in 2001. [2] Her doctoral dissertation, Class-Constrained Resource Allocation Problems, was supervised by Hadas Shachnai. [2] [3]

While still a graduate student, Tamir worked at Intel, in the Israel Software Lab, from 1994 to 1997, and had a summer position at Hewlett-Packard. After postdoctoral research at the Technion and the University of Washington, Tamir joined the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science of Reichman University in 2004. She was vice-dean of the school from 2008 to 2012, and dean from 2012 to 2017. [2]

Selected publications

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References

  1. "Prof. Tami Tamir", Faculty, Reichman University, retrieved 2023-03-22
  2. 1 2 3 Curriculum vitae , retrieved 2023-03-22
  3. Tami Tamir at the Mathematics Genealogy Project