Aviv Zohar

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Nationality| Israeli
Citizenship| Israel
Alma mater| The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Scientific career
Fields| Computer science
Cryptocurrencies
Artificial Intelligence
Institutions| The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Doctoral advisor| Jeffrey S. Rosenschein

Aviv Zohar is an Israeli computer scientist. He is a computer science professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as well as Chief Scientist at QEDit.[1]. Zohar's most notable contributions are to the field of cryptocurrencies, for example the GHOST protocol[2], a variant of which is used by Ethereum[3]

In 2013, Aviv was named by IEEE Intelligent Systems magazine as one of "AI's 10 to Watch"[4], and by TheMarker as one of Israel's most promising young people[5].

## References[edit]

1. ↑ "QEDit | About Us".
2. ↑ Sompolinsky, Yonatan; Zohar, Aviv (16 July 2015). "Secure High-Rate Transaction Processing in Bitcoin". Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer.
3. ↑ Wood, Gavin (3 February 2018). "Ethereum: A Secure Decentralized Generalised Transaction Ledger (EIP-150)". yellowpaper.io. Archived from the original on 3 February 2018. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
4. ↑ Press, Viva (14 August 2013). "2 Israeli researchers among Top 10 rising stars in Artificial Intelligence". israel21c.org. Archived from the original on 21 December 2015. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
5. ↑ "הצעירים המבטיחים של כל הזמנים". themarker.com. 2013. Archived from the original on 19 July 2021. Retrieved 30 August 2021.

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