Nir Shavit

Nir Shavit (, born 1959) is an Israeli computer scientist. He was a professor in the Computer Science Department at Tel Aviv University and is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Nir Shavit received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in computer science from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in 1984 and 1986, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1990. In 2008, he published the textbook ''The Art of Multiprocessor Programming'' along with Maurice Herlihy. Since 2011, he has been a professor at MIT, where he leads the Computational Connectomics Group, focusing on techniques for designing, implementing, and reasoning about multiprocessors, and for the design of concurrent data structures. Provided by Wikipedia