Ehud Shapiro
Ehud Shapiro (Hebrew: אהוד שפירא; born 1955) is an Israeli scientist, entrepreneur, artist, and political activist who is Professor of Computer Science and Biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science. With international reputation, he made fundamental contributions to many scientific disciplines, laying in each a long-term research agenda by asking a novel basic question and offering a first step towards answering it, including how to computerize the process of scientific discovery, by providing an algorithmic interpretation to Karl Popper's methodology of conjectures and refutations; how to automate program debugging, by algorithms for fault localization; how to unify parallel, distributed, and systems programming with a high-level logic-based programming language; how to use the metaverse as a foundation for social networking; how to devise molecular computers that can function as smart programmable drugs; how to uncover the human cell lineage tree, via single-cell genomics; how to support digital democracy, by devising an alternative architecture to the digital realm.
Ehud Shapiro | |
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| Born | 1955 Jerusalem, Israel |
| Alma mater | Yale |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Weizmann Institute of Science |
| Thesis | Algorithmic Program Debugging (1982) |
| Doctoral advisor | Dana Angluin |
| Doctoral students | Aviv Regev |
Shapiro was also an internet pioneer, entrepreneur, and a pioneer and proponent of digital democracy.
Shapiro is the founder of the Ba Rock Band and a founder of the Israeli political party "Democratit". He is a winner of two ERC (European Research Council) Advanced Grants.