Achi Brandt

Achi Brandt was born in 1938 in Givat Brenner

Achi Brandt was born in 1938 in Givat Brenner. After his military service, he studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and earned a master's degree in 1963.

He completed his Ph.D. at the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1965 under Joseph Gillis. His thesis dealt with numerical methods in hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics. He then did postdoctoral work at New York University.

In 1968 he began teaching at the Weizmann Institute, where he became a professor. He worked on multigrid methods for the numerical solution of differential equations. He also taught or visited at the Courant Institute, Stanford University, IBM and NASA labs, and Colorado State University.

He co-founded VideoSurf, a video search startup, and served as its chief scientist. Microsoft bought the company in 2011. He received the Landau Prize, the Rothschild Prize and the SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering.