Erez Petrank

Erez Petrank
Native name	ארז פטרנק
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	Technion
Doctoral advisor	Oded Goldreich
Known for	Memory Management algorithms (reference counting update coalescing, concurrent garbage collection, the compressor compator), making wait-free practical, and various zero-knowledge protocols (including concurrent and non-interactive).

Erez Petrank^[1] is a computer scientist whose notable research contributions are in the fields of programming languages and computer systems (mostly on memory management), cryptography (mostly on theoretical foundations), computational complexity, and parallel computing. Petrank is currently (2009) an Associate Professor at the Computer Science department^[2] at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.^[3]

Prof. Petrank has published more than seventy papers in top conferences and journals with over 3200 citations and an h-index of 33 (computed by Google Scholar^[4]). He has served as the program chair of the International Symposium on Memory Management^[5] and of the ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE).^[6] Between 2009—2012 Petrank has served on the Association for Computing Machinery SIGPLAN Executive Committee.

References

1. "Erez Petrank’s Homepage". cs.technion.ac.il. Retrieved 2015-02-23.
2. http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/people/erez/
3. http://www.technion.ac.il
4. "Erez Petrank - Google Scholar Citations". Scholar.google.co.il. Retrieved 2015-03-04.
5. ({cite web|url=http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~erez/ismm13/ | title = International Symposium on Memory Management | publisher - cs.technion.ac.il})
6. ({cite web|url=http://vee2014.cs.technion.ac.il | title = ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE) | publisher - cs.technion.ac.il})

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