received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Mathematics from Tel-Aviv University, Israel, in 1978 and 1981, respectively, and the D.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel, in 1988. From 1978 to 2009 he worked at industry in R&D, engineering and managerial positions. From 1999 to 2009 he was with Intel, and prior to that with IBM, National Semiconductor, and IAI-Israeli Aerospace Industry. He is an Associate Professor with the Engineering Faculty of Bar-Ilan University, Israel. From 2011 to 2015 he was an Associate Visiting Professor with the Electrical Engineering Faculty of the Technion. He is interested in VLSI circuits and systems design optimization and combinatorial optimization.