Paz Azaria

Referee for:	F.1.2, F.1.3, F.2.3, F.4.1
Institution:	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Address:	Computer Science Department Technion Technion City Haifa 32000 Israel
Home Page:	http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/People/Faculty/paz.html

Curriculum Vitae:

Dean, Faculty of Computer Science 1995-1999.
Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Odense and Aarhus, Denmark, 1992-93.
Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Technion, 1989-92.
The Henry Taub award in Computer Science, 1990.
Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Denver, 1986-87.
Dean, Department of Computer Science, Technion, 1984-86.
Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley, 1979-81.
Visiting Professor, Department of System Science, University of California at Los Angeles, 1973-74.
Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1972-73.
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1967-69.

Member: Israeli Mathematical Union; American Mathematical Society; European Association of Theoretical Computer Science; ACM-SIGACT Council Member of the European Association of Theoretical Computer Science, 1977-94. Associated Editor of TOCS (Theory of Computer Science) Journal. Associated Foundation Editor of the Journal of Universal Computer Science.

Main Research Interests:

theory of algorithms (algebraic probalistic), their analysis and approximation
discrete computational mathematics
integer algorithms
theory of automata and formal languages (deterministic and probabilistic)
graphoids
characterization of independencies in information systems