Michal Parnas

Michal Parnas (Hebrew: מיכל פרנס‎) is an Israeli theoretical computer scientist known for her work on property testing and sublinear-time algorithms. She is a professor of computer science at the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo in Israel, where she was a founding faculty member and was also the dean of the school of computer science from 2011 to 2016.[1]

Parnas is the daughter of neurobiologist Itzchak Parnas (1935–2012).[2] She was a master's student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, working with Avi Wigderson on a 1990 master's thesis on Approximate Counting, Almost Uniform Generation and Random Walks.[3] She completed her Ph.D. at the Hebrew University in 1994. Her dissertation, Robust Algorithms and Data Structures for Information Retrieval, was jointly supervised by Danny Dolev and Noam Nisan.[4] She is the co-author of a book in Hebrew on discrete mathematics, with Nati Linial.[5]

References
  1. School of Computer Sciences, Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo, retrieved 2019-12-08
  2. "The brain researcher struggling with brain drain", Haaretz (in Hebrew), retrieved 2019-12-08
  3. Wigderson, Avi, Students, Institute for Advanced Study, retrieved 2019-12-08
  4. Michal Parnas at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. Newman, Ilan, Discrete Math - Teaching material, University of Haifa, retrieved 2019-12-08
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