Miron Livny
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Miron Livny is a senior researcher and professor specializing in distributed computing
Distributed computing
Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems. A distributed system consists of multiple autonomous computers that communicate through a computer network. The computers interact with each other in order to achieve a common goal...

 at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
University of Wisconsin–Madison
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1848, UW–Madison is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It became a land-grant institution in 1866...

. Livny has been a professor of computer science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

 at Wisconsin since 1983, where he leads the Condor
Condor cycle scavenger
Condor is an open source high-throughput computing software framework for coarse-grained distributed parallelization of computationally intensive tasks....

 high-throughput computing system project. Miron is also a principal investigator and currently the facility coordinator for the Open Science Grid project, Director of the Center for High Throughput computing, CTO of Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
The Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery is a public-private biomedical research partnership that is located on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. It consists of two institutions: the privately funded Morgridge Institute for Research, and the publicly funded Wisconsin Institute for...

, and Director of Core Computational Technology of the Morgridge Institute for Research
Morgridge Institute for Research
The Morgridge Institute for Research is a private, nonprofit biomedical research institute in Madison, Wis., affiliated with the University of Wisconsin–Madison...

.

In 2006, along with Raghu Ramakrishnan
Raghu Ramakrishnan
Raghu 'The Ramrod' Ramakrishnan is a renowned researcher in the areas of database and information management. He is currently a Vice President and Research Fellow for Yahoo! Inc. Previously, he was a Professor of at the University of Wisconsin–Madison....

, Professor Livny won the SIGMOD
SIGMOD
SIGMOD is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Management of Data, which specializes in large-scale data management problems and databases....

 Test of Time award for his seminal work on distributed databases.

Education

  • Ph.D., Computer Science, August 1983. Weizmann Institute of Science
    Weizmann Institute of Science
    The Weizmann Institute of Science , known as Machon Weizmann, is a university and research institute in Rehovot, Israel. It differs from other Israeli universities in that it offers only graduate and post-graduate studies in the sciences....

    . (Thesis: The Study of Load Balancing Algorithms for Decentralized Processing Systems)
  • M.S., Computer Science, 1978. Weizmann Institute of Science
    Weizmann Institute of Science
    The Weizmann Institute of Science , known as Machon Weizmann, is a university and research institute in Rehovot, Israel. It differs from other Israeli universities in that it offers only graduate and post-graduate studies in the sciences....

    .
  • B.S., Physics and Mathematics, 1975. Hebrew University.

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