Ph.D. in Computer Science, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1983; M.S. in Computer Science, The Feinberg Graduate School of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, 1980; B.S. in Mathematics and Statistics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1978; Prof. für Computer Science, Brown Univ.; Forschungsgebiete: Randomized computation, probabilistic analysis of algorithms, communication networks, parallel and distributed computing, computational biology