IBM Research has awarded the 2008 Josef Raviv Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship to Mihai Patrascu and Vinod Vaikuntanathan. IBM typically awards only one Raviv fellowship each year, but because of the extremely high quality of these candidates, two awards were made. The winners were selected from more than 100 applicants around the world.
Dr. Patrascu and Dr. Vaikuntanathan completed their Ph.D. studies in computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Both recipients now work at IBM Research -- Dr. Patrascu at the Almaden Research Center; and Dr. Vaikuntanathan at the T.J. Watson Research Center.
About the Josef Raviv Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship
The Josef Raviv Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computer Science and Computer Engineering was established in memory of Dr. Josef Raviv, the founder and director of the IBM Haifa Research Laboratory. Dr. Raviv had a distinguished research career in information theory and helped pioneer Israel's high-tech industry.
Last updated on November 13, 2008