Judit Bar-Ilan

Judit Bar-Ilan was born in 1958

Judit Bar-Ilan was born in 1958 to Agnes and Professor András Mohlard. She studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science in 1981 and a master's degree in mathematics in 1983. Her doctorate in computer science dealt with one-way functions and randomization in security protocols, under Michael Rabin and Michael Ben-Or.

She taught for a year at the University of Haifa and then returned to the Hebrew University, where she taught library, archive and information studies. In 2002 she joined the Department of Information Science at Bar-Ilan University. She headed the department from 2008 to 2012 and became a full professor in 2010.

Her early work dealt with fault tolerance in distributed computing and with cryptography. She later studied the accuracy and stability of search engine results, the link structure of the web, citation analysis, the h-index and altmetrics. She also served on the board of the Israel Internet Association from December 2011.

She received the Derek de Solla Price Memorial Medal in 2017 and an award from the Association for Information Science and Technology in 2018. She lived in Mevaseret Zion, was married and had 3 children. She died of illness on July 16, 2019, and was buried at Har HaMenuchot.