Gil Zussman received the B.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering and Management and the B.A. degree in Economics (both summa cum laude) from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1995. He received the M.Sc. degree (summa cum laude) in Operations Research from Tel-Aviv University in 1999 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 2004. Between 1995 and 1998, he served as an engineer in the Israel Defense Forces. He spent the summer of 2003 in Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK. Between 2004 and 2006 he was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at MIT. In 2007 he was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Communications and Networking Research Group at MIT and a Research Fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion.

Gil is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. His current research interests are in the area of computer networks. In particular, he is interested in the design and performance evaluation of protocols for wireless networks including ad hoc, mesh, sensor, and personal area networks. He has been a member of a number of Technical Program Committees including the WiOpt’06, WiOpt’07, Mobihoc’07, Mobicom’07, INFOCOM’07, INFOCOM’08, and ICC’08 committees.

Gil received the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) Award for distinguished undergraduate students, and the Intel Prize, Wolf Award and Eshkol Grant for distinguished graduate students. In 2004 he received the Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellowship and the Fulbright Fellowship. He is also a recipient of the Best Student Paper Award at the IFIP-TC6 Networking 2002 conference, the IEEE Communications Magazine Best Paper Award at the OPNETWORK 2002 conference, and the Best Paper Award at the ACM SIGMETRICS / IFIP Performance’06 conference.