Biography:Danny Raz

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Danny Raz
דני רז
Born1959
NationalityIsraeli
Alma materHebrew University, Weizmann Institute of Science
Awards
  • Michael Landau Award (Mifal Hapayis Fund) for Young Scientist
  • 2016 Yanai Prize for Excellence in Academic Education from the Technion
Scientific career
Fieldsnetwork and system management
InstitutionsTechnion
Thesis (1996)
Doctoral advisorDavid Harel

Danny Raz (born 1959; Hebrew: דני רז) is an Israeli computer scientist and a professor of computer science at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.[1] He is known for his research on applying theoretical analysis to develop practical and efficient tools for networks and systems management.[1][2]

Raz is the Senior Executive Vice President of the Technion.[3]

Academic career

Raz received a B.Sc in Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1988). He then obtained both his M.Sc. (1990) and his Ph.D. (1996) from the Weizmann Institute of Science under the supervision of David Harel.[4]

From 1995 to 1997, Raz was a postdoctoral fellow at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), in Berkeley California.[5]

Raz joined the computer science department at the Technion in 2000, and became an associate professor in 2005. He was promoted to full professor in 2013.[5]

In 2020 he received the title of Hewlett-Packard Chair in Computer Engineering, and in 2023 he was appointed as Dean of the faculty of computer science.[1] Raz was appointed Senior Executive Vice President of the Technion in October 2025.[3]

Raz has supervised 30 graduate students and authored over 150 scientific publications and 8 patents.[6]

Research

Raz has made contributions in the fields of networking, systems, and cloud computing.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13]

His research includes network management, optimization, and resource allocation in large-scale distributed systems.[9][12][13] He has made contributions to software-defined networking, network function virtualization, and self-adaptive network management.[11][12][13]

Professional activities

Raz was an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN) and The Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN). He was also a member of the editorial advisory board at The International Journal of Network Management.[14][15][16]

Raz was a visiting scientist at Google in Mountain view, California, and from 2017 he is a visiting scientist at Google in Israel.[17]

In 2014, Raz founded the first branch of Bell Labs in Israel, and was its first director until 2017.[18][19][20]

Publications

Books

  • Cheng Jin, Sugih Jamin, D. Raz, and Yuval Shavitt, "Building Scalable Internet Services: Theory and Practice", Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 2003.
  • D. Raz, Arto Tapani Juhola, Joan Serrat-Fernandez, and Alex Galis, "Fast and Efficient Context-Aware services", WILEY, 2006.[21]
  • Dilip Krishnaswamy, Tom Pfeifer, D. Raz (editors), "Real-Time Mobile Multimedia Services: 10th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management, of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services, MMNS 2007", Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2007.
  • Dongsu Han, Danny Raz (editors) Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot topics in Middleboxes and Network Function Virtualization, HotMiddlebox@SIGCOMM 2016, Florianopolis, Brazil, August, 2016.
  • Bruno Wassermann, Michal Malka, Vijay Chidambaram, Danny Raz: SYSTOR '21: The 14th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference, Haifa, Israel, June 14–16, 2021. ACM 2021.

Honors and awards

In 1998, Raz received the Michael Landau Award (Mifal Hapayis Fund) for Young Scientist, and in 2016 he won the Yanai Prize for Excellence in Academic Education from the Technion.[22] He has also received several IBM Faculty and Best Paper awards.[18]

Personal life

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Danny Raz" (in en-US). https://ats.org/about/faces-of-the-technion/danny-raz/. 
  2. ↑ אורבך, מאיר (2014-05-20). "Bell Labs של אלקטל-לוסנט פותחת משרדים בישראל". https://www.calcalist.co.il/internet/articles/0,7340,L-3631576,00.html. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "New Appointments in the Technion Administration" (in en-US). https://www.technion.ac.il/en/blog/article/new-appointments-in-the-technion-administration/. 
  4. ↑ "Prof. David Harel" (in en). https://www.weizmann.ac.il/math/harel/. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Data Center Networking in the Cloud Era" (in en-US). 2007-02-06. https://research.ibm.com/haifa/Workshops/cloud2010/raz.shtml. 
  6. ↑ "Google Patents". https://patents.google.com/?inventor=Danny+Raz&oq=Danny+Raz. 
  7. ↑ Krishnan, P.; Raz, Danny; Shavitt, Yuval (2000-10-01). "The cache location problem". IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 8 (5): 568–582. doi:10.1109/90.879344. ISSN 1063-6692. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/90.879344. 
  8. ↑ Cohen, Reuven; Katzir, Liran; Raz, Danny (2006-11-30). "An efficient approximation for the Generalized Assignment Problem". Information Processing Letters 100 (4): 162–166. doi:10.1016/j.ipl.2006.06.003. ISSN 0020-0190. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0020019006001931. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Cohen, Rami; Lewin-Eytan, Liane; Naor, Joseph Seffi; Raz, Danny (2014). "On the effect of forwarding table size on SDN network utilization". IEEE INFOCOM 2014 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications. pp. 1734–1742. doi:10.1109/INFOCOM.2014.6848111. ISBN 978-1-4799-3360-0. 
  10. ↑ Cohen, Rami; Lewin-Eytan, Liane; Naor, Joseph Seffi; Raz, Danny (2015). "Near optimal placement of virtual network functions". 2015 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM). pp. 1346–1354. doi:10.1109/INFOCOM.2015.7218511. ISBN 978-1-4799-8381-0. 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Nahir, Amir; Orda, Ariel; Raz, Danny (2016). "Replication-Based Load Balancing". IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 27 (2): 494–507. doi:10.1109/TPDS.2015.2400456. ISSN 1558-2183. 
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Naori, David; Raz, Danny (2020-07-06). "Online Placement of Virtual Machines with Prior Data". IEEE INFOCOM 2020 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications. Toronto, ON, Canada: IEEE Press. pp. 2539–2548. doi:10.1109/INFOCOM41043.2020.9155339. ISBN 978-1-7281-6412-0. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/INFOCOM41043.2020.9155339. 
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Kaplan, Haim; Naori, David; Raz, Danny (2019-12-23), "Competitive Analysis with a Sample and the Secretary Problem", Proceedings of the 2020 ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), Proceedings (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics): pp. 2082–2095, doi:10.1137/1.9781611975994.128, ISBN 978-1-61197-599-4, https://epubs.siam.org/doi/10.1137/1.9781611975994.128, retrieved 2025-04-16 
  14. ↑ "Distributed Council Election". https://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~shavitt/pub/RSZ04.pdf. 
  15. ↑ "Towards Unbiased End-to-End Network Diagnosis". https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~bindel/papers/2009-tons.pdf. 
  16. ↑ "International Journal of Network Management Editorial Board" (in en). doi:10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1190. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/10991190/homepage/editorialboard.html. 
  17. ↑ "PANELS | IEEE IM 2015". https://im2015.ieee-im.org/content/panels-1.html. 
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Shamah, David. "Bell Labs head hopes to turn brain drain into gain" (in en-US). https://www.timesofisrael.com/bell-labs-head-hopes-to-turn-brain-drain-into-gain/. 
  19. ↑ "Technion: Danny Raz named new head of Bell Labs Tel Aviv office. Researchers co-located with Alcatel-Lucent cloudband team," Science Info.
  20. ↑ Haaretz (May 23, 2014). "Cell Phone Pioneer Bell Labs to Open Research Center in Israel". https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/2014-05-23/ty-article/bell-labs-to-do-r-d-in-israel/0000017f-e760-dc7e-adff-f7edfbc60000. 
  21. ↑ Raz, Danny; Juhola, Arto Tapani; Serrat-Fernandez, Joan; Galis, Alex (2006-05-01) (in en). Fast and Efficient Context-Aware Services. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-02868-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=1dLtRPRLDGsC. 
  22. ↑ ynet (2016-02-25). "11 פרופסורים זכו בפרס ינאי למצוינות בטכניון" (in he). Ynet. https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4771134,00.html. 



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