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. Between 2004 and 2007 he was a Postdoctoral Associate in LIDS and CNRG at MIT. During 2007-8 he was 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,
cognitive radio, and personal area networks. He has been an Area Editor of Ad Hoc Networks, the
Gil received the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) Award for distinguished students, 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. In 2009 he received the DTRA Young Investigator Award and was a member of a group that won the 1st place in the Vodafone Foundation Wireless Innovation Project competition.