- Professor Emeritus, Blavatnik School of Computer Science and AI, Tel Aviv University
Ron Shamir received his PhD from UC Berkeley. He held the Sackler chair of Bioinformatics in the Blavatnik School of Computer Science and AI at Tel Aviv University (TAU), where he is Professor Emeritus since 2022. His group develops algorithms in bioinformatics for understanding the genome and human disease. Software tools developed by the group are in use around the world. Shamir Founded the Edmond J. Safra Center for Bioinformatics at TAU and headed it for 17 years. He published more than 330 scientific works, including 17 books and edited volumes, and has supervised more than 80 research students. Nineteen of his past students hold academic positions. He was on the founding steering committee of RECOMB, co-founded the Israeli Society of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (ISBCB), and was society president. He is a recipient of the Landau Prize in Bioinformatics, the Kadar family prize for excellence in research, a Fellow of the ISCB and the ACM, the Senior Scientist Award of the ISCB and a lifetime achievement award of the ISBCB.