Amiram Yehudai received his B.Sc. in
Electrical Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of
Technology in Haifa in 1973, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer
Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974 and 1977,
respectively. In 1977 he joined the Academic Faculty of the
Department of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, and he is now an
Emeritus Professor. He served as the Chair of the Blavatnik
School of Computer Sciences from 2008 to 2011, and was chairman of the
CS Department (when it was still part of the School of Mathematical
Sciences) from 1982 to 1983, from 1985 to 1987, and from 1992 to
1994. From 2000 until 2003, Professor Yehudai was Vice President
for Academic Affairs and Head of the Computer Science Program in the
Academic College of Tel Aviv Yaffo.
Professor Yehudai held visiting positions in the University of
California at Berkeley and at Los Angeles, in the University of
Maryland, in GMD, Germany, and in the US Naval Postgraduate School. His
main research areas are Software Engineering and Programming
Languages. He published over 80 articles in Journals and
Conferences. He co-authored work on Parallelizing Pascal
compiler that received an
Honorable Mention in
the 1990 IEEE Computer Society Gordon
Bell prize. He also co-authored a paper that was voted the ASE 2011
Most Influential paper, selected from papers that appeared in the
KBSE/ASE conferences in the years 1995-97. In addition, a paper on
unit test and mock aspect generation tool, that he co-authored received
best paper award in HVC 2007. His work has been funded by
grants from the Israel Science Foundation, the German-Israel Fund,
the Israeli Ministry of Science, the Israeli Ministry of Defense,
IBM and Microsoft. He has supervised more than a dozen PhD
students, and more than 60 MSc students, and was awarded Rector's
citation for Teaching excellence for the year 2007/08, Tel Aviv
University.
Professor Yehudai served as the chairman of the Israeli Education
Ministry's Committee on Computer Science Education between 1990 and
1999, and led the development of a new CS program, considered to be one
of the leading CS high school curricula in the world. He was a member
of the National Committee for Information Technology and
Infrastructure, a member of the subcommittee on Computing of the
Council for Higher Education(CHE)'s Planning and Budgeting
Committee(PBC), and a member of the CHE's Computer Science
Quality Evaluation committee.
Over the years, Professor Yehudai consulted for many
organizations, including Trivnet, Algorithmic Research, Mercury
Interactive, Ampal, Aitech Software
Engineering, National Semiconductors Israel, Open University,
M.G. Electronics Israel. He served on the board of
Sela group from 2000 to 2006, and was member
of the advisory board of Foretellix co.