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Danny Raz

Danny Raz is an Israeli computer scientist and Technion professor who researches the management of communication networks and computer systems.

born 1959Network and systems management researchFounding Bell Labs IsraelTechnion Senior Executive Vice President

Occupation: researcher
Education: Weizmann Institute of Science

Danny Raz was born in 1959

Danny Raz was born in 1959. He is married to Orit, and they live in Timrat with their 4 children.

Raz earned a bachelor's degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1988. At the Weizmann Institute of Science he completed a master's degree in 1990 and a doctorate in 1996, supervised by David Harel. From 1995 to 1997 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California.

He joined the Technion computer science faculty in 2000, became an associate professor in 2005 and a full professor in 2013. He was given the Hewlett-Packard Chair in Computer Engineering in 2020 and became dean of the computer science faculty in 2023. In October 2025 he was appointed Senior Executive Vice President of the Technion.

His research uses theoretical analysis to build practical tools for managing networks and systems, including cloud computing, software-defined networking and network function virtualization. In 2014 he founded the first Bell Labs branch in Israel and directed it until 2017. He has been a visiting scientist at Google, and at Google Israel since 2017.