Education
Degrees in Computer Science from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in 1984 and 1986, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1990.
Degrees in Computer Science from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in 1984 and 1986, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1990.
He is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Tel Aviv University and a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nir Shavit received Bachelor of Science and Master of Science He is a past program chair of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA).
His research covers techniques for designing, implementing, and reasoning about multiprocessors, and in particular the design of concurrent data structures for multi-core machines.
2004 Gödel prize
2012 Dijkstra Prize
2013 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.