Senior Executive Vice President

Prof. Danny Raz, outgoing dean of the Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science, has been appointed Senior Executive Vice President of the Technion. Prof. Raz specializes in the management and optimization of communication and cloud networks. He holds bachelor’s degrees in mathematics, physics, and computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and earned his Ph.D. in computer science from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1996. He served as a visiting lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley and as a researcher at Bell Labs before joining the Technion’s Faculty of Computer Science in 2000. Prof. Raz has served as a consultant to leading companies in Israel and abroad, was a visiting scientist at Google California in 2007, and in 2015 established the first Bell Labs branch in Israel. He is a recipient of the Yanai Prize for Excellence in Academic Education.