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Nir Shavit

Nir Shavit

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
71
Citations
18214
World Ranking
1789
National Ranking
903

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - ACM Fellow For contributions to the theory and practice of synchronization in concurrent programming.

Overview

Nir Shavit is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has made contributions primarily in the field of Computer Science. Their work extensively covers subfields such as Computer Networks and Communications, Hardware and Architecture, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

The scientist's main topics of research include:

  • Distributed systems and fault tolerance
  • Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
  • Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques
  • Optimization and Search Problems
  • Real-Time Systems Scheduling
  • Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems
  • Cloud Computing and Resource Management

Their recent papers include:

  • "Connectomes across development reveal principles of brain maturation," 2021, published in Nature
  • "On the Predictability of Pruning Across Scales," 2020, published on arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Revisiting Latent-Space Interpolation via a Quantitative Evaluation Framework," 2021, published on arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "SmartEM: machine-learning guided electron microscopy," 2023, published on bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "The XPRESS Challenge: Xray Projectomic Reconstruction -- Extracting Segmentation with Skeletons," 2023, published on arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent coauthors of Nir Shavit are Maurice Herlihy, Victor Luchangco, Michael Spear, Yaron Meirovitch, and Shashata Sawmya.

The most common publication venues where Nir Shavit's work appears are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature
  • Neural Networks

Nir Shavit was recognized as an ACM Fellow in 2013 for contributions to the theory and practice of synchronization in concurrent programming.

Best Publications

  • Software transactional memory

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  • Transactional locking II

    Dave Dice;Ori Shalev;Nir Shavit

  • Atomic snapshots of shared memory

    Yehuda Afek;Hagit Attiya;Danny Dolev;Eli Gafni

  • The topological structure of asynchronous computability

    Maurice Herlihy;Nir Shavit

  • Deep Learning is Robust to Massive Label Noise

    David Rolnick;Andreas Veit;Serge J. Belongie;Nir Shavit

  • Connectomes across development reveal principles of brain maturation

    Daniel Witvliet;Daniel Witvliet;Ben Mulcahy;James K. Mitchell;Yaron Meirovitch;Yaron Meirovitch

  • Flat combining and the synchronization-parallelism tradeoff

    Danny Hendler;Itai Incze;Nir Shavit;Moran Tzafrir

  • A scalable lock-free stack algorithm

    Danny Hendler;Nir Shavit;Lena Yerushalmi

  • The big data challenges of connectomics

    Jeff W Lichtman;Hanspeter Pfister;Nir Shavit

  • Split-ordered lists: Lock-free extensible hash tables

    Ori Shalev;Nir Shavit

  • A lazy concurrent list-based set algorithm

    Steve Heller;Maurice Herlihy;Victor Luchangco;Mark Moir

  • The asynchronous computability theorem for t-resilient tasks

    Maurice Herlihy;Nir Shavit

  • Lock Cohorting: A General Technique for Designing NUMA Locks

    David Dice;Virendra J. Marathe;Nir Shavit

  • Generative Compression

    Shibani Santurkar;David Budden;Nir Shavit

  • Methods and apparatus to implement parallel transactions

    David Dice;Nir N. Shavit

  • The Art of Multiprocessor Programming, Revised Reprint

    Maurice Herlihy;Nir Shavit

  • Data structures in the multicore age

    Nir Shavit

  • Counting networks

    James Aspnes;Maurice Herlihy;Nir Shavit

  • Hopscotch Hashing

    Maurice Herlihy;Nir Shavit;Moran Tzafrir

  • Using elimination to implement scalable and lock-free FIFO queues

    Mark Moir;Daniel Nussbaum;Ori Shalev;Nir Shavit

  • Atomic snapshots of shared memory

    Yehuda Afek;Danny Dolev;Hagit Attiya;Eli Gafni

  • A Lazy Concurrent List-Based Set Algorithm

    Steve Heller;Maurice Herlihy;Victor Luchangco;Mark Moir

  • The Art of Multiprocessor Programming : 並行プログラミングの原理から実践まで

    Maurice Herlihy;Nir Shavit;クイープ

  • The big data challenges of connectomics

    Hanspeter Pfister;Jeff W. Lichtman;Nir N. Shavit

Frequent Co-Authors

Maurice Herlihy
Maurice Herlihy Brown University
Mark Moir
Mark Moir Oracle (US)
Yehuda Afek
Yehuda Afek Tel Aviv University
Guy L. Steele
Guy L. Steele Oracle (United States)
Victor Luchangco
Victor Luchangco Algorand Foundation
Danny Dolev
Danny Dolev Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jeff W. Lichtman
Jeff W. Lichtman Harvard University
Hagit Attiya
Hagit Attiya Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Pascal Felber
Pascal Felber University of Neuchâtel

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