Prof. Avishai Wool - פרופ' אבישי וול

School of Electrical Engineering,
Tel Aviv University,
Ramat Aviv 69978, ISRAEL.
Phone: +972-3-640-6316, Fax: +972-3-640-5027
E-mail: yash (at) eng.tau.ac.il
Office: Software Engineering 314 - Here are directions to the building.
PGP Key Fingerprint: C9AD E677 4621 7718 24AF FED3 F3C1 B285 BBA8 0007

"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.
If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that" [said the red queen] ..... Lewis Carroll, Through the looking glass, chapter 2.

"I understand about indecision, But I don't care if I get behind;
People livin' in competition, All I want is to have my peace of mind." ..... Boston, Peace of Mind, 1976

Current Interests: Firewalls, Wireless Security ( new

RFID, Bluetooth, WiFi ), Internet Topology, Operating System Security.

Resume
List of publications, with links to electronically-available papers.
Google me! Here are my Google Scholar citations, my DBLP record, Coauthors, and my Citeseer citations.
Check out my academic ancestors all the way back to the 17'th century. See if you can find the paths to: Bernoulli, Gauss, Euler, Leibnitz, Fourier, Poisson, and many others you may have heard of along the way!
My Erdös Number is 2, via 2 separate paths, which is I find to be quite amazing...

Teaching:

Graduate Students and their research topics. If you think you want me to advise you READ THIS!
0512-4402: Introduction to Systems Programming, Fall 2012. Moodle (registered students)
0510-7409. Topics in Information Security seminar, Fall 2012. Moodle (registered students)
0512-2510: Data Structures and Algorithms, Spring 2013. Moodle (registered students)
0368-3065: Introduction to Information Security (with Dr. Eran Tromer from Computer Science), Spring 2013.

Not given this year

0510-7401: Cryptography and Computer Security.
Check out Benny Appelbaum's course 0368-3049: Intro to Cryptography this year (joint with Computer Science).

Things I'm involved in:

Editorial and Advisory Board, International Journal of Information and Computer Security
Program committee member, 6'th Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm'10)
I'm the student liason for USENIX at Tel Aviv University.
The Check Point Institute for Information Security
Security Theater
Some relevant Conference Call-for-Papers (out of date)
If you care about computer-related risks, the Risks Digest is must reading.

My mother and daughter together wrote a cool kids' book

Last modified: Wed Oct 20 13:14:54 IST 2010