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Eduard Khastovich Yakubov

Eduard Yakubov is a mathematician who became the fourth president of HIT Holon Institute of Technology in 2013.

born 1951President of Holon Institute of TechnologyFounding HIT's applied mathematics programResearch on the Beltrami equation

Born: 28 August 1951, Tashkent
Occupation: mathematician
Education: National University of Uzbekistan named after Mirzo Ulugbek

Eduard Khastovich Yakubov was born in 1951 in Tashkent

Eduard Yakubov was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on August 28, 1951. He was the eldest son of Hasdo, a teacher of history, civics and economics, and Tamara, a pediatrician. As a child he moved with his family to Konkad in southeastern Soviet Uzbekistan.

At 15 he won first place in a regional mathematics competition for the eastern Soviet Union, and he later organized a mathematics olympiad. He finished bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics at Tashkent University with honors in 1973. He completed his doctorate there in 1979 under Professor Lev Vokovisky.

From 1981 he was an associate professor in the department of mathematical analysis at Tashkent University. He also led applied projects in metallurgy, solar energy and optical fibers. His research covers Riemann surfaces, mappings with controlled dilatation, the Beltrami equation and mathematical models.

He immigrated to Israel in 1990 and settled in Holon. From 1991 to 1996 he was a senior research fellow and lecturer at the Technion. In 1994 he joined the Holon Institute of Technology, where he founded the applied mathematics program and served as dean of the Faculty of Sciences.

He was vice president for research from 2011 to 2013 and became the institute's fourth president in 2013. He heads the forum of scientists and academics in the World Congress of Bukharian Jews. He is married to Dina and has 2 daughters.