About Uri Zwick
Born 1953. Uri Zwick is an Israeli computer scientist and mathematician.
Uri Zwick (Hebrew: אורי צוויק) is an Israeli computer scientist and mathematician known for his work on graph algorithms, in particular on distances in graphs and on the color-coding technique for subgraph isomorphism. With Howard Karloff, he is the namesake of the Karloff–Zwick algorithm for approximating the MAX-3SAT problem of Boolean satisfiability. He and his coauthors won the David P. Robbins Prize in 2011 for their work on the block-stacking problem.
Zwick earned a bachelor's degree from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and completed his doctorate at Tel Aviv University in 1989 under the supervision of Noga Alon. He is currently a professor of computer science at Tel Aviv University.
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