Zvi Galil
Emeritus Dean of Computing, Frederick G. Storey Chair of Computing and Executive Advisor of Online Programs Georgia Institute of Technology, AtlantaZvi Galil is an Israeli-American computer scientist and mathematician. Galil served as the President of Tel Aviv University from 2007 through 2009. From 2010 to 2019, he was the dean of the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing. At Georgia Tech, together with Udacity founder Sebastian Thrun, Galil conceived of the College of Computing’s Online Master of Science in Computer Science (OMSCS) program, and he led the faculty creation of the program. OMSCS went on to become the largest online master’s program in computer science in the United States. OMSCS has been featured in hundreds of articles including a 2013 front page article in the New York Times and 2021 interviews in the Wall Street Journal and Forbes.
His research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms, computational complexity, and cryptography. He has been credited with coining the terms stringology and sparsification. He has published over 200 scientific papers and is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher. In 2020, Academic Influence included Galil in the list of the 10 most influential computer scientists of the last decade.