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Vishkin, Uzi

Vishkin, Uzi

Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
UMIACS
5216 Iribe Center
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EDUCATION

 

  • B.Sc. in Mathematics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, 1974
  • M.Sc in Mathematics from the Hebrew University in Jerusaleme, Israel,1975
  • D.Sc. in Computer Science from the Tecnion--Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel,1981

 

BACKGROUND

 

Uzi Vishkin is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Maryland, College Park and at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). He was a postdoctoral fellow at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in 1981-2 and on the faculty of the Courant Institute, NYU, first full time and later part-time, from 1982 to 1988. From 1984 to 1997 he was on the faculty of Tel Aviv University, Israel, where he was Chair of Computer Science in 1987-8 and Professor of Computer Science since 1988. He was Professor of Computer Science at the Technion in 2000-2001. He has been at the University of Maryland since 1988.
 
He has served on the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Algorithms and Parallel Processing Letters, was on the editorial board IEEE Transactions on Computers and is the Program Chair for the 18 th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA). He has authored, or co-authored more than 130 publications. He was elected Fellow of the ACM in 1996 and is on the ISI list of most cited researchers in Computer Science. 

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

    •    IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award (2026)

ACM SPAA Parallel Computing Award (2025)

Fellow, National Academy of Inventors  (2024)

    •    Maryland Daily Record Innovator of the Year Award (2007)

    •    ACM Fellow (1996)

    •    Editorial Board, ACM Transactions on Algorithms and Parallel Processing Letters

    •    Editorial Board, IEEE Transactions on Computers

    •    ISI Most Cited Researchers in Computer Science

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

 

  • Fellow of the ACM

 

ECE Names 2025-2026 Distinguished Dissertation Fellows

Fellowship recognizes excellence in research.

Vishkin Receives 2026 IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award

Recognized for his seminal contributions to the parallel random-access machine theory and as the inventor of fundamental work-efficient parallel algorithms.

Vishkin to Receive the ACM SPAA Parallel Computing Award

For formative contributions to the theory of parallel algorithms and prototyping its reduction to practice

Vishkin Named Fellow of National Academy of Inventors

Recognized for research on parallel computing

Professor Uzi Vishkin Featured in Communications of the ACM Magazine

Counterpoint article debates model of computation for multicore computer processors

Professor Vishkin elected to Chair ACM SPAA Steering Committee

Vishkin's term as Steering Committee Chair will be from 2020-2024.

Alumnus Yossi Matias Receives ACM’s Kanellakis Award

Matias and his colleagues pioneered a framework for algorithmic treatment of streaming massive datasets.

Vishkin’s desktop supercomputer 11 years later: Over 750 parallel programmers at a single high school and more

Vishkin's collaboration with local high school on parallel programming curriculum using XMT heads into its 11th year. 

Vishkin To Give Invited Talk on Parallel Computing at Indiana University

Vishkin's talk, "Single-Threaded Parallel Programming for Multi-Threaded Many-Core Design," is part of Indiana’s SICE CS Colloquium Series.

Vishkin, Barua and Ghanim Introduce ICE to Eliminate Programmer’s Multi-Threading – A Productivity-Buster in Parallel Computing

Intermediate Concurrent Execution (ICE) enables tightly-synchronous threading-free programming for multi-threaded execution.

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