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Ofer Zaitûnî

Ofer Zeitouni is an Israeli mathematician who works in probability theory and is a professor at the Weizmann Institute and the Courant Institute.

born 1960Research on random matricesLarge deviations theoryRandom walks in random environments

Born: 23 October 1960, Haifa
Occupation: mathematician, university teacher, electrotechnician
Education: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Ofer Zaitûnî was born in 1960 in Haifa

Ofer Zeitouni was born on 23 October 1960 in Haifa.

He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at the Technion in 1980. In 1986 he completed a doctorate in electrical engineering there, supervised by Moshe Zakai. He then held postdoctoral posts at Brown University and at MIT.

He joined the Technion in 1989 as a senior lecturer and became a full professor of electrical engineering in 1997. He later became a professor of mathematics at the Weizmann Institute and at the Courant Institute of New York University, and also taught part time at the University of Minnesota. His research covers random matrices, large deviations, stochastic processes and filtering, and motion in random media.

In 2009 he published a book on random matrices with Greg Anderson and Alice Guionnet. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He is married with 2 children.

Milestones in Ofer Zaitûnî's life

1960
Born in Haifa.
1980
Earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at the Technion.
1986
Completed his doctorate under Moshe Zakai.
1989
Joined the Technion as a senior lecturer.
1997
Became a full professor at the Technion.
2001
Named a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
2002
Gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing.
2009
Published a book on random matrices with 2 coauthors.
2017
Named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.