Elad Schiller

Education

·         Oct/00 - Sep/04 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. Ph.D. in Computer Science, advised by Prof. Shlomi Dolev. I was also a member of the Distributed Computing and Computer Communication research group.

 

·         Oct/98 - Sep/00 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. M.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science, advised by Prof. Shlomi Dolev.

 

·         Oct/96 - Sep/98 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science.


Areas of Research Interest: the theory of distributed computing, its application to middleware services, and communication networks.

·        Distributed computing: Algorithms, Models, Impossibility Results, Lower Bounds, Complexity Analysis, and Fault-Tolerance (in particular Self-Stabilization).

·        Middleware Services: Group Membership, Group Multicast, Resource Allocation, and Virtual Nodes for Ad-Hoc Networks.

·        Computer Communication: Communication Protocols, Internet Protocols, Networking Techniques, Directed Networks, Mobile Networks, Ad Hoc Networks, Sensor Networks, Virtual Nodes and Mobile Agents.


Employment History (and Visiting Positions)

·         Dec/04 - Nov/05 Research Academic Computer Technology Institute (CTI), Greece. Visiting research specialist (Post-Doc) hosted by Prof. Pavlos Spirakis and Dr. Sotiris Nikoletseas.

·         Oct/04 - Nov/04 MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, USA. Visiting Scholar (Post-Doc) hosted by Prof. Nancy Lynch.

·         Jan/04 - Feb/04 MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, USA. Visiting Scholar (Pre-Doc) hosted by Prof. Nancy Lynch.

·         Jan/02 Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, USA. Visiting Scholar with Prof. Jennifer L. Welch.

·         Oct/01 - Sep/04 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. Associate Teacher.

·         Sep/00 Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique (LRI), CNRS-Universite de Paris Sud. France. Visiting Scholar with Prof. Joffroy Beauquier.

·         Oct/98 - Sep/01 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. Teacher Assistant.

·         Oct/95 - Sep/98 Expert Solution International (a member of Formula Group), Herzliya, Israel. Application developer and database administrator.

 


Scientific Publications:

DBLP, CiteSeer, HomePageSearch, Computer Science Database, Scirus, Google Scholar.

Scientific dissertations

[d1] ``Self-Stabilizing Group Communication,´´ M.Sc. thesis accepted at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, October 2000.

Dissertations under review

[d2]``Self-Stabilizing Group Communication´ Ph.D. thesis. Submitted to the Senate of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, August 2004.

Research articles in scientific journals

[j1] ``Communication adaptive self-stabilizing group membership service´ together with Shlomi Dolev. Appears in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEETPDS), volume 14, number 7, pages 709-720, July 2003.

[j2] ``Self-stabilizing group communication in directed networks´ together with Shlomi Dolev. Appears in Acta Informatica, volume 40, number 9, pages: 609-636, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, September 2004, ISSN: 0001-5903 (Paper) 1432-0525 (Online).

Journal articles under review

[j3] ``Random walk for self-stabilizing group communication in ad-hoc networks´ together with Shlomi Dolev and Jennifer Welch. Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

Extended abstracts in scientific conference

[c1] ``Easy stabilization with an agent´ together with Joffroy Beauquier and Thomas Herault. Appears in proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Self-Stabilizing Systems, (WSS Lisbon, Portugal, October 1-2, 2001), pages 35 - 50, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2194 Springer 2001, ISBN 3-540-42653-1.

[c2] ``Communication adaptive self-stabilizing group membership service´ together with Shlomi Dolev. Appears in proceedings the Fifth International Workshop on Self-Stabilizing Systems (WSS Lisbon, Portugal, October 1-2, 2001), pages 82-97, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2194 Springer 2001, ISBN 3-540-42653-1.

[c3] ``Random walk for self-stabilizing group communication in ad-hoc networks´ together with Shlomi Dolev and Jennifer Welch. Appears proceedings of the Twenty-First Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 13-16 October 2002, Osaka, Japan), pages 70-79, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2002, ISBN 0-7695-1659-9.

[c4] ``Self-stabilizing group communication in directed networks´ together with Shlomi Dolev. Appears in proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Self-Stabilizing Systems (SSS San Francisco, CA, USA, June 24-25, 2003),pages 61-76, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2704 Springer 2003, ISBN 3-540-40453-8.

[c5] ``Virtual mobile nodes for mobile ad hoc networks´ together with Shlomi Dolev, Seth Gilbert, Nancy A. Lynch, Alex A. Shvartsman, and Jennifer Welch. To appear in the proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference on Distributed Computing (DISC 2004).

Brief-announcements in scientific conference

[b1] ``Random walk for self-stabilizing group communication in ad hoc networks´ together with Shlomi Dolev and Jennifer Welch. Appears in the proceedings of the twenty-first symposium on principles of distributed computing (PODC July 21-24, 2002 Monterey, California), pages 259-259. ACM Press, July 2002, ISBN 1-58113-485-1.

[b2] ``Virtual mobile nodes for mobile ad hoc networks´ together with Shlomi Dolev, Seth Gilbert, Nancy A. Lynch, Alex A. Shvartsman, and Jennifer Welch. Appears in the proceedings of the Proceedings of the twenty-third annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing (PODC St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, July 25-28), page 385. ACM Press, July 2004, ISBN 1-58113-802-4.

[b3] ``Knowledge discovery with fleximine´ together with Carmel Domshlak, Tzachi Rosen, and Solomon Eyal Shimony. Appears in the proceedings of the Symposium AI meets the Real World, 1998.

Scientific technical reports

[t1] ``Virtual Mobile Nodes for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,´´ together with Shlomi Dolev, Seth Gilbert, Nancy Lynch, Alex Shvartsman, and Jennifer Welch. Technical Report MIT-LCS-TR-937, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004.

[t2] ``Communication adaptive self-stabilizing group communication´ together with Shlomi Dolev. Technical report #00-02 at Department of Computer Science at the Ben-Gurion University in the Negev,October 2002.

[t3] ``Self-stabilizing group communication in directed networks´ together with Shlomi Dolev. Technical report #10-03 at Department of Computer Science at the Ben-Gurion University in the Negev, May 2003..

[t4] ``Random walk for self-stabilizing group communication in ad-hoc networks´ together with Shlomi Dolev and Jennifer Welch. Technical report #02-04 at Department of Computer Science at the Ben-Gurion University in the Negev, June 2002.

Lectures and Presentation at Conferences and Meetings

Oct/04 Self-Stabilizing Distributed Systems Workshop at Banff Research Station, Banff, Canada.

Sep/04 The Second Combinatorial Structure of Intractable Problems Workshop (COMBSTRU'04), Venice, Italy.

Jun/03 The 6th Symposium on Self-Stabilizing Systems (SSS'03), San Francisco, USA.

Jul/02 The 21th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC'02), Monterey, California, USA.

Oct/01 The 5th Workshop on Self-Stabilizing Systems 2001 (WSS'01), Lisboa, Portugal.

Oct/00 Dagstuhl Workshop on Self-Stabilizing Systems 2000, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany.

Invited Seminar

Oct/04 MIT, hosted by Prof. Nancy Lynch.

Aug/03 MIT, hosted by Mr. Seth Gilbert.

Aug/03 TAMU, hosted by Prof. Jennifer Welch.

Jun/03 UCSB, hosted by Prof. Ambuj K. Singh.

Jul/02 UCSD, hosted by Mr. Flavio P. Junqueira and Mr. Dmitrii Zagorodnov.

Dec/00 IBM Israel Research Seminars (Presented by Prof. Shlomi Dolev).

Sep/00 LRI, CNRS-Universite de Paris Sud, hosted by Prof. Joffroy Beauquier.


Contact Information:

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Currently I spend most of my time at CTI. Please look at my CTI homepage for most update contact information.

Phone (cell-phone while in Israel): +972-54-4856106

Mail address (parents): Bialik 7 Ra'anana, ISRAEL 43609

Fax: +972-9-7483372