Nathan Netanyahu

{{Short description|Israeli computer scientist (born 1951)}}

{{for|his grandfather|Nathan Mileikowsky}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Nathan S. Netanyahu

| native_name = נָתָן נְתַנְיָהוּ

| native_name_lang = he

| image =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|11|28}}

| fields = Computer Science

| workplaces = Bar-Ilan University

| alma_mater = University of Maryland, College Park

| doctoral_advisor = David Mount, Azriel Rosenfeld

| known_for = Nearest neighbor search, k-means clustering, computer chess, image registration

}}

Nathan S. Netanyahu ({{langx|he|נָתָן נְתַנְיָהוּ}}; born 28 November 1951) is an Israeli computer scientist and a professor of computer science at Bar-Ilan University.[http://cs.biu.ac.il/en/node/644 Faculty profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190212174447/https://cs.biu.ac.il/en/node/644 |date=2019-02-12 }}, Bar-Ilan University, retrieved 2012-02-29.

Netanyahu is the son of mathematician Elisha Netanyahu and Supreme Court of Israel justice Shoshana Netanyahu, the nephew of historian Benzion Netanyahu, and the cousin of current Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu. He did his graduate studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, earning a Ph.D. in 1992 under the supervision of David Mount and Azriel Rosenfeld.{{mathgenealogy|name=Nathan S. Netanyahu|id=78888}}.

Netanyahu has co-authored highly cited research papers on nearest neighbor search{{citation

| last1 = Arya | first1 = Sunil

| last2 = Mount | first2 = David M. | author2-link = David Mount

| last3 = Netanyahu | first3 = Nathan S.

| last4 = Silverman | first4 = Ruth | author4-link = Ruth Silverman

| last5 = Wu | first5 = Angela Y. | author5-link = Angela Y. Wu

| doi = 10.1145/293347.293348

| issue = 6

| journal = Journal of the ACM

| pages = 891–923

| title = An optimal algorithm for approximate nearest neighbor searching fixed dimensions

| volume = 45

| year = 1998| s2cid = 8193729

| doi-access = free

}}. and

k-means clustering.{{citation

| last1 = Kanungo | first1 = Tapas

| last2 = Mount | first2 = David M. | author2-link = David Mount

| last3 = Netanyahu | first3 = Nathan S.

| last4 = Piatko | first4 = Christine D. | author4-link = Christine Piatko

| last5 = Silverman | first5 = Ruth | author5-link = Ruth Silverman

| last6 = Wu | first6 = Angela Y. | author6-link = Angela Y. Wu

| doi = 10.1109/TPAMI.2002.1017616

| issue = 7

| journal = IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell.

| pages = 881–892

| title = An efficient k-means clustering algorithm: analysis and implementation

| volume = 24

| year = 2002| s2cid = 12003435

}}. He has published many papers on computer chess, was the local organizer of the 12th World Computer Chess Championship in 2004, and was program co-chair for the 4th International Conference on Computers and Games, colocated with the WCCC. Another frequent topic in his research is image registration.