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Shlomo Moran

Shlomo Moran is an Israeli computer scientist at the Technion who shared the 1993 Gödel Prize for work on interactive proof systems.

born 1947Interactive proof systemsThe 1993 Gödel PrizeDistributed computing research

Occupation: computer scientist
Education: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Shlomo Moran was born in 1947 in Yagur

Shlomo Moran was born in 1947 in Kibbutz Yagur. His parents, Arie Leib Walter and Ruhama Polak, both came from Berestechko in Volhynia. His brother Gadi Moran became a mathematics professor.

He studied mathematics at the Technion and earned a bachelor's degree in 1975. He completed his Ph.D. there in 1979 under Azaria Paz, with a dissertation on NP optimization problems and their approximation.

His research covers dynamic networks, computational biology with a focus on phylogenetic trees, distributed computing, self-stabilizing algorithms and complexity theory. In 1993 he shared the Gödel Prize with László Babai, Shafi Goldwasser, Silvio Micali and Charles Rackoff for work on Arthur-Merlin protocols and interactive proofs. He holds the Bernard Elkin Chair in Computer Science at the Technion and is a professor emeritus there.

From 1994 to 1996 he served as secretary of Kibbutz Yagur, and from 1998 to 2001 he was dean of the Technion's computer science faculty. He is married to Orly, has 3 children and lives in Yagur.