Assaf Schuster
{{short description|Israeli professor of computer science}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Assaf Schuster
| native_name = אסף שוסטר
| native_name_lang = he
| image = פרופסור אסף שוסטר.jpg
| birth_date = 1958
| birth_place = Givat Brenner, Israel
| fields = Computer Science
| workplaces = Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
| alma_mater = Hebrew University of Jerusalem
| doctoral_advisor = Eli Shamir
| known_for = Cloud computing, dynamic configuration of communication networks
| awards = Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2015)
}}
Assaf Schuster ({{Langx|he|אסף שוסטר}}) is an Israeli entrepreneur and professor of computer science whose works have been published in such journals as Computer Aided Verification and Journal of Systems and Software.{{Cite web |title=Professor Assaf Schuster |url=https://assaf.net.technion.ac.il/}}
Biography
Schuster was born in 1958 in the Israeli kibbutz Givat Brenner to Tzipora and Yochanan Schuster. His family is of Ashkenazi-Jewish origin.
Schuster began his academic studies at the Hebrew University in 1981, and graduated in 1984, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science. In 1986, he graduated with a master's degree in computer science. After receiving his degree, Schuster worked as a teacher at Ort College in Givat Ram, Jerusalem. In 1991 Schuster received a doctorate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in computer science. His PhD topic dealt with the dynamic configuration of communication networks for parallel computation, under the guidance of Eli Shamir.{{mathgenealogy|id=55543}} He then started working at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. In 2000, he became an associate professor and in 2007, he became a professor.{{cite web |title=Assaf Schuster |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=U3PQvAIAAAAJ |accessdate=December 10, 2013 |publisher=Google Scholar}}
In 2015 he was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for his contributions to cloud computing.{{citation |title=ACM Fellows Named for Computing Innovations that Are Advancing Technology in the Digital Age |url=http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2015/fellows-2015 |year=2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151209221613/http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2015/fellows-2015 |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery |archive-date=2015-12-09 |accessdate=2015-12-10 |url-status=dead}}.
In 2016, Schuster co-founded a startup called Cy-oT (Cyber of Things), along with Natan Bandler and Daniel Moscovici.{{Cite web |title=RESUME - Assaf Schuster |url=https://assaf.net.technion.ac.il/files/2022/04/cur.pdf |access-date=2022-11-29}} Schuster served as the CTO until the company was sold to Verint in 2019.
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