Dana Ron
Dana Ron Goldreich (Hebrew: דנה רון גולדרייך; b. 1964) is a computer scientist, a professor of electrical engineering at the Tel Aviv University, Israel. Prof. Ron is one of the pioneers of research in property testing, and a leading researcher in that area.
Professional career
Dana Ron obtained her B.A. (1987) and M.A. (1989) in computer science from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Her Ph.D. (1995), also from the Hebrew University, was in the area of machine learning. Between the years 1995-97 she was an NSF post-doctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She was a Bunting fellow in 1997/8, and the Radcliffe fellow at Harvard University in 2003/4. Her research interests include sublinear-time algorithms (in particular property testing), randomized algorithms, and computational learning theory.
She is married to Oded Goldreich, who is also a computer scientist at the Weizmann Institute, and has collaborated with Goldreich on approximation algorithms.
Podcasts:
The Flame
Is this the hope of the world in my hands
I'll take this moment, to be all that I can
Look to you to see the future
Stronger and free
Today we will show who we are
We are the earth
And we're together again
My friends, will you show us the way
We travel on, guided by the flame
The fire within makes you reach out to the goal
You redefine the best, by stretching the soul
A world in need of inspiration
And looks to you and me
Today we will show who we are
We are the earth
And we're together again
My friends, will you show us the way
We travel on, guided by the flame
Since ancient times we've come together
In the light of the flame
To stand for all the world to see
People reaching out to greatness
And all we can be
Today we will show who we are
We are the earth
Together again
Today you will show who you are
The best on earth, and you bring the world together again
My friends, you have shown us the way
Look to your heart