Yuval Emek is a professor at the Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences in the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where he conducts his research on algorithmic aspects of coping with uncertainty. He graduated (summa cum laude) from the Technion with a bachelor degree in computer science (2000) and completed his master studies (2003) and PhD (2008) in computer science and applied mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science under the supervision of David Peleg. Following that, he held post-doc positions at Tel Aviv University (2008-2009), Microsoft (2009-2010), and ETH Zurich (2010-2013), before joining the Technion as a faculty member in 2013. Between 2021-2022, Yuval was a visiting associate professor at the Department of Computer Science in the University of British Columbia.