Alon Grubshtein - Curriculum Vitae



Contact details:

Office: Sam Gorovoy building, room 102 (30/102)
Phone: (+972)-8-6428025
e-mail: alongrub at cs dot bgu dot ac dot il


Education:

2008 - present: PhD student, Dept. of Computer Science, Ben Gurion University
Thesis advisor: Prof. Amnon Meisels
Expected graduatation: September 2012
2006 - 2008: MSc in Computer Science – Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Thesis topic: Introducing self interest into distributed constraint models to solve the meeting scheduling problem
Thesis advisor: Prof. Amnon Meisels
2001 - 2006: B.Sc in Computer Science – Ben Gurion University of the Negev
2001 - 2006: B.Sc in Physics – Ben Gurion University of the Negev


Publication list:

(A detailed list can be found here: [list])

Honors and Awards:

2012: Outstanding graduate Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
2011: Graduate Students research excellence prize, Dept. of Computer Science, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
2010: Graduate Students research excellence prize, Dept. of Computer Science, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
2008: Negev scholarship, Kreitman School for Advanced Graduate Studies, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
2001: Dean's list, Faculty of Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.


Academic Activities:

Co-chair, 13th Intl. Workshop on Dist. Constraints Reasoning (DCR'11) .
Organizer and Coordinator, Computer Science Graduate Seminar, 2010-2012.
Reviewer, DCR'08 - DCR'11, AAAI'09, Journal of Computer Science and Information Systems.
Coordinator, Distributed Constraints Reasoning Research Group seminar, 2007-2011.


Work experience:

Oct. 2006 - present: Ben Gurion University – Beer- Sheva, Israel
Teaching assistant (with excellent students feedback review):
2011/12: “Constraint Satisfaction”, Operating Systems”
2010/11: “Constraint Satisfaction”, Operating Systems”
2009/10: “Constraint Satisfaction”, Operating Systems”
2008/9: “Constraint Satisfaction”, “Introduction to Computer Science”, “Operating Systems”
2007/8: “Constraint Satisfaction”, “Operating Systems”
2006/7: “Compilers Design”, “System Programming Lab”

Project co-manager/mentor Faculty of engingeering:
2011/12: "AgentZero" - A framework for dist. algorithms simulation
2011/12: "MoVA" - A framework for Mobile Virtual Agent
2010/11: "DisCo" - Distributed Constraints Simulation Tool

Oct. 2007 – present: Deutsche Telekom Laboratories at Ben Gurion University
Research assistant
Jan. 2006 – Oct. 2006: Voltaire R&D center – Hertzelia, Israel
Real–Time / Embedded software developer of InfiniBand switches
Mar. 2003 – Jan. 2006: Intel, FAB18 – Kiryat-Gat, Israel
Automation department, Global infrastructure
Dec. 2000 – Sep. 2001: EMC – Boston, MA, USA
Server Resources department, Asset Mgmt. / Client support