Yoram Ofek

Background

He was born in Kibbutz Ramat David, Israel.

Education

And Doctor of Philosophy degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign.

Career

He was the inventor of 45 United States and European patents and published more than 120 journal and conference papers. He invented several novel architectures for networking, computing and storage. He was elected Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow in 2006 for his contributions to switching, scheduling and synchronization in data networks.

Education and He received his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and his Master of Science

In 1979 he was a researcher at Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, and in 1982 at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. In 1987 he became research staff member at International Business Machines Corporation T. J. Watson Center.

In 1998 Professor Ofek and Professor Mario Baldi founded Synchrodyne Networks, a company that developed switching technology for the Internet.

He became the Marie Curie Chair and full professor at the University of Trento in 2004, where he also taught graduate and master level courses.

Professor Ofek was directing Intellectual Property-FLOW (a recursive acronym for "Intellectual Property FLows over Optical and Wireless"). The focus of Intellectual Property-FLOW was the flow control of Intellectual Property packets over the Internet.

Pipeline forwardingTime-driven switchingFractional lambda switchingTime-driven priority.

Achievements

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Interstate Commerce Commission-007 ONS Best Paper Award: "Scalable Switching Testbed not "Stopping" the Serial Bit Stream," (with Doctorate Agrawal, M Baldi, M Corra, G Fontana, G Marchetto, V T Nguyen, Doctorate Severina, T H Truong). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Interstate Commerce Commission-2009 - Best Paper Award (First International Workshop on Green Communications): "Time for a "Greener" Internet," (with Mario Baldi). International Business Machines Corporation Outstanding Innovation Award for his invention of the MetaRing architecture and his contributions to the Social Security Administration storage products. International Business Machines Corporation Division Award for developing the PARIS high-speed networking prototype system. Four International Business Machines Corporation Invention Achievement Three International Business Machines Corporation External Honors. Three commendations of excellence for his research at Rafael.

Membership

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.