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Nir Shavit | |
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ניר שביט | |
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| Alma mater | Technion,Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Known for | Software transactional memory,wait-free algorithms |
| Spouse | Shafi Goldwasser (divorced) |
| Children | 3 |
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| Fields | Computer science:concurrent andparallel computing |
| Thesis | Concurrent time stamping (1990) |
| Website | www |
Nir Shavit (Hebrew:ניר שביט, born 1959)[1] is an Israeli computer scientist. He was a professor in theComputer Science Department atTel Aviv University and is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology.
Nir Shavit received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees incomputer science from theTechnion - Israel Institute of Technology in 1984 and 1986, and a Ph.D. in computer science from theHebrew University of Jerusalem in 1990. In 2008, he published the textbookThe Art of Multiprocessor Programming along withMaurice Herlihy.[2] Since 2011, he has been a professor at MIT, where he leads the Computational Connectomics Group, focusing on techniques for designing, implementing, and reasoning about multiprocessors, and for the design ofconcurrent data structures.[3]
In 2004, Shavit received theGödel Prize in theoretical computer science along with Maurice Herlihy,Michael Saks, andFotios Zaharoglou for work on applying tools fromalgebraic topology to model shared memory computability.[2] In 2012 he received theDijkstra Prize along with Maurice Herlihy,J. Eliot B. Moss, andDan Touitou for the introduction and first implementation ofsoftware transactional memory.[4] In 2013, he became a fellow of theAssociation for Computing Machinery.[5] He is also a past program chair of the ACMSymposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) and the ACMSymposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA).
He co-founded a company named Neural Magic that provided high performance inference for ML models along with Alexander Matveev. The company was sold to Red Hat in 2024[6]
Shavit has 3 children.
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