2013 Yahoo ACE Award
Prof. Mark Silberstein receives the 2013 Yahoo ACE Award
The competitive Yahoo ACE (Academic Career Enhancement) award is announced yearly, and its recipients are top young professors at leading research universities around the world, conducting Yahoo-relevant academic research.
Prof. Silberstein’s research spans several topics. He is interested in heterogeneous architectures, from different points of view: programming tools, scheduling algorithms, Operating System (OS) abstractions and privacy support in OS. In addition, he conducts research concerning high performance computing on grids and clouds, distributed storage systems, and parallel processing on multicores and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs).
The award announcement notes that Prof. Silberstein is a specialist in these research topics, and also that “aspects of Silberstein’s research are tightly aligned with areas of interest to the Systems Research team at Yahoo Labs in Haifa. Scientists at Yahoo Labs intend to collaborate with Silberstein on various projects including the scalable implementations of machine-learning algorithms on high-performance hardware (GPGPU, etc).”
“I am looking forward to productively cooperating with the scientists at Yahoo Labs,” says Prof. Silberstein, “in order to achieve groundbreaking research together with applications which will prove useful in the real world.”
Prof. Silberstein recently joined the Electrical Engineering Department at the Technion, after having conducted post-doctoral research at the University of Texas in Austin, under the supervision of Prof. Emmett Witchel. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science at the Technion in 2010, jointly supervised by Prof. Assaf Schuster and Prof. Dan Geiger.