Short Bio

Yuval Emek is an Assoc. Prof. at the Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences (formerly Industrial Engineering and Management) 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, Boaz Patt-Shamir’s group), Microsoft (2009-2010, Moshe Tennenholtz’s group), and ETH Zurich (2010-2013, Roger Wattenhofer’s group), before joining the Technion as a faculty member in 2013. Between 2021-2022, Yuval was a visiting Assoc. Prof. at the Department of Computer Science in the University of British Columbia.