Background
Yair Censor was born in Rishon LeZion.
Yair Censor was born in Rishon LeZion.
After serving in the Israel Defense Forces, he studied at the Technion in Haifa, where he earned his Doctor of Science in 1975 under the supervision of Professor Adi Ben-Israel.
Censor joined the department of mathematics at the University of Haifa in 1979, and became full professor in 1989. His research focuses on mathematical aspects of Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT). In 2002, he founded the Center for Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computation at the University of Haifa.
Active in the struggle to preserve the academic freedom of the research universities in Israel, Censor was one of the founders of the Inter-Senate Committee (ISC) of the Universities for the Protection of Academic Independence.
Together with South America Zenios, he co-authored the book Parallel Optimization: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications (Oxford University Press, New York, New York, United States of America, 1997), for which he received the 1999 International Correspondence Schools ( Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Computing Society) Prize for Research Excellence in the Interface Between Operations Research and Computer Science.
