Michael Segal ^People

After completing his undergraduate studies at Ben-Gurion University in 1994, Segal received a Ph.D. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Ben-Gurion University in 2000 under the supervision of Klara Kedem. The topic of his PhDDissertation was: Covering point sets and accompanying problems.After continuing his studies with David G. Kirkpatrick at University of British Columbia, and Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Studies he joined the faculty at Ben-Gurion University in 2000, where he also served as the head of the Communication Systems Engineering department between 2005-2010. He is known (equally with his coauthors) for being first to analyze the analytical performance ofthe well-known Least Cluster Change (LCC) algorithm that is widely used in ad hocnetworks for re-clustering in order to reduce the number of modifications. He also was one ofthe first to introduce and analvze the construction of multi-criteria spannersfor ad hoc networks. Segal has published over 170 scientific papers and was a reci- pient of the Toronto Prize for Research in 2010. He isserving as the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Computer and System Sciences. Currently he is heading the Engineering program studies in Eilat campus at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. AlongwithhisBen-GurionUniversityprofessorship,heheldvisitingprofessorpositionsat Cambridge University, University of Liverpool and Lancaster University.