Biography:Tamar Eilam

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Tamar Eilam
תמר עילם
NationalityIsraeli-American
Alma materTechnion – Israel Institute of Technology (Ph.D.)
Known forDevOps, configuration management
AwardsIBM Fellow, Working Mothers of the Year (Working Mother magazine)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science, DevOps, Configuration management
InstitutionsIBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Doctoral advisorShlomo Moran, Shmuel Zaks

Tamar Eilam (Hebrew: תמר עילם) is an Israeli-American computer scientist at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center at Yorktown Heights, New York whose work for IBM centers around DevOps and configuration management.[1]

Eilam completed her Ph.D. in 2000 at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Her dissertation, Cost versus Quality: Tradeoffs in Communication Networks, was jointly supervised by Shlomo Moran and Shmuel Zaks.[2] She immigrated to the US in 2000, after completing her Ph.D., to join IBM Research.[1][3]

In 2014 IBM named her as an IBM Fellow.[1][3] In 2016, Working Mother magazine named her as one of their Working Mothers of the Year.[3]

Selected publications

  • Jayasinghe, D; Pu, C; Eilam, T; Steinder, M; Whally, I; Snible, E (2011). "Improving performance and availability of services hosted on IaaS clouds with structural constraint-aware virtual machine placement". pp. 72–79. 
  • ; T. Eilam & M.H. Kalantar et al."Virtual solution composition and deployment system and method" US patent 8281307, published 2012
  • ; W.C. Arnold & D.C. Berg et al."Semantically rich composable software image bundles" US patent 9280335, published 2016
  • Eilam, T; Gavoille, C; Peleg, D (1998). "Compact routing schemes with low stretch factor". 
  • ; L. Fong & G. Hunt et al."Provisioning of services based on declarative descriptions of a resource structure of a service" US patent 10776705, published 2005
  • Konstantinou, A.V.; Eilam, T; Kalantar, M; Totok, A.A.; Arnold, W; Snible, E (2009). "An architecture for virtual solution composition and deployment in infrastructure clouds". 
  • ; M. Factor & T. Eilam et al."Speculative caching of individual fields in a distributed object system" US patent 6618737, published 2003
  • Hummer, W; Rosenberg, F; Oliveira, F; Eilam, T (2013). "Testing idempotence for infrastructure as code". 
  • ; D.C. Berg & B.L. Blancett et al."Simplified deployment modeling" US patent 8291378, published 2012
  • ; L.L. Fong & G.D.H. Hunt et al."Automatic provisioning of services based on a high level description and an infrastructure description" US patent 7676552, published 2010

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