Honors and Prizes

 

Honors and Prizes to Faculty Members

    2024
    Adi Shamir

    was awarded the  prestigious Wolf Prize in Mathematics for 2024  (jointly with Noga Alon).

    https://wolffund.org.il/the-wolf-prize/
    Oded Goldreich elected a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
    Thomas Vidick is the recipient of the prestigious 2024 Blavatnik Awards in Physical Sciences & Engineering.
    Amir Abboud

    won the 2024 Erdos Prize in Mathematics by the Israel Mathematical Union.

    won the FOCS 2024 Test of Time award.
    Moni Naor recipient of the 2024 Rothschild Prize in Computer Science.

    2023
    Yonina Eldar recipient of the 2023 Landau Prize in Mathematics.
    Omri Sarig was awarded the Frontiers of Science Award for the paper "Measures of maximal entropy for surface diffeomorphisms” (together with Sylvain Crovisier and Jerome Buzzi). Journal: Annals of Mathematics (2022).
    Adi Shamir received 2023 Basic Science Lifetime Award.
    Ofer Zeitouni elected members of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
    Michal Irani elected members of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
    Zvika Brakerski recipient of the 2023 Levinson Prize awarded by the Scientific Council.
    Shafi Goldwasser was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society.
    Yonina Eldar was elected as a member of the Academia Europea.
    Gal Binyamini
    won the 2023 Erdos Prize in Mathematics by the Israel Mathematical Union.
    Boaz Nadler was Named IMS Fellow.
    Zvika Brakerski was awarded the 2023 Blavatnik Awards in Israel Laureate in Physical Sciences & Engineering.
    David Harel was awarded the 2023 Harlan D. Mills Award “for the development of visual formalisms and for the invention of Statecharts, which had a profound impact on software engineering.” 
    Thomas Vidick

    was awarded the 2023 Michael and Sheila Held Prize.

    2022
    Merav Parter received the Andre Deloro Prize, given by the Weizmann Institute (Nov 2022).
    Gal Binyamini won the Shimon and Golde Picker prize, given at Weizmann as an annual grant.
    Ronen Eldan received the 2023 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize. announcement
    Moni Naor won the 2022 STOC Test of Time Award for his 1991 paper with Danny Dolev and Cynthia Dwork, “Non-malleable cryptography”, STOC 1991. announcement
    Moni Naor won the 2022 IACR (International Association for Cryptologic Research) Award for Excellence in the Field of Mathematics. announcement
    Gal Binyamini recipient of the Weizmann's Scientific Council Levinson Prize in Mathematics.
    Zvika Brakerski won the 2022 Gödel Prize.
    Irit Dinur received the 2021 ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award., 2022 link
    Adi Shamir elected as an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
    Irit Dinur and Alex Lubotzky won the STOC 2022 Best Paper Award for their paper “Locally Testable Codes with constant rate, distance, and locality.”
    Ronen Eldan

    received the 2022 Blavatnik Award in Physical Sciences & Engineering.

    2021
    Shafi Goldwasser awarded The PhD. Honoris Causa for 2021 by Tel Aviv University.
    Greg Bodwin & Merav Parter won the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) 2021. Best Paper Award.
    Yael Hitron & Merav Parter won TWO Best Student Paper Awards at The Intern’l Symp. on Distributed Computing (DISC).
    Shimon Kogan & Merav Parter won the 2022 Symposium of Discrete Algorithm (SODA) Best Paper Award.
    Merav Parter won the 2021 Krill Prize awarded by the Wolf Foundation.
    David Harel  elected President of The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
    Ohad Shamir recipient of the 2021 Levinson Prize awarded by our Scientific Council.
    Amir Abboud awarded the 2021 Allon Fellowship.
    Eliran Subag awarded the 2021 Allon Fellowship.
    Avraham (Rami) Aizenbud 
    won the 2021 Erdos Prize in Mathematics by the Israel Mathematical Union
    Oded Goldreich  selected for the 2021 Israel Prize in Computer Science.
    Shafi Goldwasser was awarded the 2020 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award.
    Adi Shamir elected as 2020 ACM Fellow.
    Moni Naor elected as 2020 ACM Fellow.

    2020
    Yaron Lipman  winner of the 2020 Abarbanel Prize for Applied Mathematics.
    Edriss Titi  won the ICCM 2020 Best Paper Award for the paper “Global well-posedness of the three-dimensional primitive equations with only horizontal viscosity and diffusion” together with former Weizmann postdoc Jinkai Li and former Irvine student Chongsheng.
    Eliran Subag recipient of the 2020 Clore Prize.
    Avraham Aizenbud recipient of the 2020 Morris L. Levinson Prize awarded by the Scientific Council.
    David Harel  elected as a Fellow of The Royal Society.
    Ofer Zeitouni elected as a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
    Guy Rothblum recipient of the 2020 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists in Physical Sciences & Engineering.
    Michal Irani  recipient of the 2020 Rothschild Prize in Mathematics/Computer Sciences and Engineering.

    2019
    Michal Irani  recipient of the 2019 Landau Prize in Artificial Intelligence
    Shimon Ullman  recipient of the Azriel Rosenfeld Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Vision.
    Gal Binyamini promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure.
    Zvika Brakerski  promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure.
    Ronen Eldan promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure.
    Boaz Nadler promoted to the rank of Professor.
    Amos Tanay  promoted to the rank of Professor.
    Shahar Dobzinski  recipient of the 2019 Morris L. Levinson Prize in Mathematics, awarded by the Scientific Council of the Weizmann Institute.
    David Harel elected as a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences.
    Ofer Zeitouni elected as a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
    Irit Dinur  recipient of the 2019 Godel Prize.

    2018
    Adi Shamir  elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society 
    Boaz Nadler recipient of the 2018 Abarbanel Prize in Applied Mathematics of the Israel Mathematical Union.
    Edriss Titi  named a Fellow of the "John Simon Guggeheim Memorial Foundation" in Applied Mathematics for 2018.
    Guy Rothblum recipient of the 2018 Morris L. Levinson Prize in Mathematics, awarded by the Scientific Council of the Weizmann Institute.
    Aviezri Fraenkel was selected to light a torch at Israel's 70th Independence Day ceremony.
    Eliran Subag won the 2018 Nessyahu Prize of the Israel Mathematical Union.
    Ronen Eldan
    won the 2018 Erdos Prize in Mathematics by the Israel Mathematical Union
    Shafi Goldwasser  recipient of the 2018 BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Information and Communication Technologies.
    Adi Shamir recipient of the 2018 BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Information and Communication Technologies.

    2017
    Oded Goldreich  recipient of the 2017 Knuth Prize.
    Merav Parter  recipient of the 2017 Clore Prize.
    Moni Naor  recipient of the 2017 ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award.
    Adi Shamir  recipient of the 2017 Japan Prize.
    Zvika Brakerski  recipient of the 2017 Krill Prize.
    Ofer Zeitouni elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

    2016
    Michal Irani recipient of the 2016 IAPR Maria Petrou Prize
    Tamar Flash elected as a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
    Shimon Ullman elected as a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
    David Harel elected Fellow of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science.

    2015
    Anat Levin  winner of the 2015 Michael Bruno Memorial Award in Computer Vision.
    Eran Segal winner of the 2015 Michael Bruno Memorial Award in Computational Biology.
    Shafi Goldwasser elected member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
    David Harel elected vice-president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
    Maria Gorelik promoted to the rank of professor.
    Eran Segal  promoted to the rank of professor.
    Anat Levin recipient of the 2015 Morris L. Levinson Prize in Mathematics, awarded by the Scientific Council of the Weizmann Institute.
    Assaf Marron recipient of the 2015 Maxine Singer Prize for Outstanding Research Associates, awarded by the Scientific Council of the Weizmann Institute.
    Rami Aizenbud recipient of the Levitzki Prize in Algebra.
    Shimon Ullman recipient of the Israel Prize for Computer Science.

    2014
    Steve Gelbart  elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
    Shimon Ullman recipient of the 2014 Emet Prize.
    Irit Dinur recipient of the 2014 Levinson Prize in Mathematics of Weizmann Institute's Scientific Council.
    David Harel selected as the 2014 Honorary Fellow of the Beit Berl College.
    David Harel elected as a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
    Moni Naor awarded the Godel Prize for outstanding papers in the area of theoretical computer science.

    2013
    Omri Sarig winner of the 2013 Michael Brin Prize in Dynamical Systems.
    Anat Levin winner of the 2013 PAMI (Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence) Young Researcher Award.
    Omer Tamuz  recipient of the 2013 The Michael B. Maschler Prize, awarded by the Israeli chapter of the Game Theory Society.
    Omri Sarig
    won the 2013 Erdos Prize in Mathematics by the Israel Mathematical Union
    Omri Sarig recipient of the 2013 Morris L. Levinson Prize in Mathematics, awarded by the Scientific Council of the Weizmann Institute.
    Dmitry Gourevitch recipient of the 2013 Levitzki Prize, awarded by the Israeli Mathematical Union.
    Anat Levin recipient of the 2013 Krill Prize.

    2012
    Shafi Goldwasser recipient of the 2012 A.M. Turing award in Computer Science.
    Eran Segal appointed as a Member of the Young Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
    Vladimir Berkovich  elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
    Edriss S. Titi elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
    Adi Shamir  recipient of the 2012 Gold Medal of the French Académie des sciences. [poster]
    Yuri Lima recipient of the Gutierrez Prize 2012 , Awarded by the Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Computation with the support of the Brazilian Mathematical Society.
    David Harel  recipient of the 2013 ABZ Platinum-Gold Medal of ETH Zurich for Computer Science and Computer Science Education.
    Boaz Nadler recipient of the 2012 Morris L. Levinson Prize in Mathematics, awarded by the Scientific Council of the Weizmann Institute.
    Edriss Titi  elected as a SIAM Fellow.
    Irit Dinur
    won the 2012 Erdos Prize in Mathematics by the Israel Mathematical Union
    David Harel the 2012 Doctor Honoris Causa of the Eindhoven University of Technology.
    Elad Ganmor recipient of the 2012 Lee A. Segel Prize in Theoretical Biology.
    Eitan Yaffe recipient of the 2012 Lee A. Segel Prize in Theoretical Biology.
    Shiri Chechik recipient of the 2012 Shimon Even Prize in Theoretical Computer Science.
    Amos Tanay recipient of the 2012 Krill Prize.

    2011
    Shimon Ullman elected member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
    Robert Krauthgamer  ecipient of the 2011 Morris L. Levinson Prize in Mathematics, awarded by the Scientific Council of the Weizmann Institute.
    Yonatan Savir recipient of the 2011 Lee A. Segel Prize in Theoretical Biology.

    2010
    David Harel   recipient of the 2010 Emet Prize.
    Shafi Goldwasser recipient of the 2010 IEEE Emanuel Piore Award.
    David Harel elected member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
    Anat Levin recipient of the 2010 Eurographics Young Researcher Award, presented by the European Association for Computer Graphics.
    Shafi Goldwasser recipient of the 2010 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science.
    Gadi Kozma  recipient of the 2010 Rollo Davidson Prize for young probabilists, awarded by the Rollo Davidson Trust, University of Cambridge.
    Amos Tanay  recipient of the 2010 Morris L. Levinson Prize in Mathematics, awarded by the Scientific Council of the Weizmann Institute.

    2009
    Anat Levin chosen as one of the 2009 Young Innovators Under 35 (TR35), by the Editors of Technology Review.
    Michael Solomyak  conferred an Honorary Distinguished Professorship by Cardiff University.
    Edriss S. Titi  recipient of the 2009 SIAM Activity Group on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations (SIAG/APDE) Prize (jointly with Chongsheng Cao), awarded by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics , 2009 SIAM
    Omer Reingold recipient of the Gődel Prize (joinly with Salil Vadhan and Avi Wigderson), presented by SIGACT and the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS).
    Dmitry Novikov  recipient of the 2009 Morris L. Levinson Prize in Mathematics, awarded by the Scientific Council of the Weizmann Institute.
    Eran Segal recipient of the 2009 Morris L. Levinson Prize in Biology, awarded by the Scientific Council of the Weizmann Institute.
    Edriss S. Titi elected as a member of the Commission on Mathematical Physics of IUPAP (International Union of Pure and Applied Physics).

    2008
    Anat Levin recipient of the 2008 Prof. Pazy Memorial Research Award, given by the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF)
    Harry Dym (President), Vered Rom-Kedar, Robert Krauthgamer  The newly elected leadership team of the Israel Mathematical Union.
    Shafi Goldwasser recipient of 2008-2009 Athena Lecturer Award of the Association for Computing Machinery's Committee on Women in Computing (ACM-W).
    Gady Kozma
    won the 2008 Erdos Prize in Mathematics by the Israel Mathematical Union
    Adi Shamir recipient of the 2008 Israel Prize in Computer Science.

    2007
    David Harel recipient of the Association for Computing Machinery 2007 ACM Software System Award.
    Amir Pnueli recipient of the Association for Computing Machinery 2007 ACM Software System Award.
    Aviezri Fraenkel elected meritocrat of Rehovot (Yakir Ha'ir).
    David Harel elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
    Omer Reingold recipient of the 2007 Morris L. Levinson Prize in Mathematics awarded by the Scientific Council of the Weizmann Institute.
    Eran Segal recipient of the 2007 EMBO Young Investigator Award.
    Shimon Ullman  recipient of the 2008 David E. Rumelhart Prize.
    Eran Segal recipient of the 2007 Overton Prize of the International Society for Computational Biology. citation
    Boaz Nadler recipient of the 2005 Kowalski Prize Winning Paper.
    Maria Gorelik recipient of the Levitzki Prize in Algebra.
    Aviezri Fraenkel founder of the Responsa Project (Bar Ilan University), on the occasion of the Project being awarded the 2007 Israel Prize in Works of Judaism.

    2006
    Omer Reingold  recipient of the 2006 Prof. Pazy Memorial Research Award, given by the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF)
    David Harel awarded an Honorary Fellowship of The Open University.
    David Harel recipient of the 2006 Sigsoft Outstanding Research Award , 2006 Outstanding Research Award.
    Ran Raz  recipient of the 2006 Morris L. Levinson Prize in Mathematics awarded by the Scientific Council of the Weizmann Institute.
    Ran Raz recipient of the 2006 Michael Bruno Memorial Award given by the Rothschild Foundation.
    Aviezri Fraenkel recipient of the 2005 Euler Medal of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications.
    Omer Reingold  recipient of the 2005 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award.
    Oded Goldreich recipient of the RSA Conference 2006 Award.
    Ariel Gabizon recipient of the 2006 Shimon Even Prize in Theoretical Computer Science.

    2005
    Vered Rom-Kedar  recipient of the 2005 Morris L. Levinson Prize in Mathematics awarded by the Scientific Council of the Weizmann Institute.
    Achi Brandt awarded the SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering.
    Uriel Feige  recipient of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Award for Outstanding Paper Prize.
    David Harel  recipient of a Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Rennes, France.

    2004
    Itai Benjamini recipient of the 2004 Rollo Davidson Prize for young probabilists, awarded by the Rollo Davidson Trust, University of Cambridge.
    Itai Benjamini  recipient of the 2004 Morris L. Levinson Prize in Mathematics awarded by the Scientific Council of the Weizmann Institute.
    Shafi Goldwasser elected as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences USA.
    Shafi Goldwasser awarded the Cymerman-Jakubskind Prize.
    David Harel awarded the Israel Prize for Computer Science.
    Ehud Shapiro recipient of the 2004 World Technology Award for Biotechnology.
    Edriss Titi elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, UK.

    2003
    Michal Irani recipient of the 2003 Morris L. Levinson Prize in Mathematics awarded by the Scientific Council of the Weizmann Institute.
    Oded Goldreich elected as a corresponding Fellow of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
    Oded Goldreich elected as a 2003-2004 Radcliffe Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
    Adi Shamir recipient of the 2002 A.M. Turing award in Computer Science.

    2002
    Moni Naor recipient of the 2001 Morris L. Levinson Prize in Mathematics awarded by the Scientific Council of the Weizmann Institute.
    Ran Raz
    won the 2002 Erdos Prize in Mathematics by the Israel Mathematical Union
    Uriel Feige awarded the Godel Prize for outstanding papers in the area of theoretical computer science.
    Shafi Goldwasser awarded the Godel Prize for outstanding papers in the area of theoretical computer science.
    Amir Pnueli elected as a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

    2001
    Ronen Basri  recipient of the 2001 Morris L. Levinson Prize in Mathematics awarded by the Scientific Council of the Weizmann Institute.
    Uriel Feige awarded the Godel Prize for outstanding papers in the area of theoretical computer science.
    Shafi Goldwasser awarded the Godel Prize for outstanding papers in the area of theoretical computer science.
    Amir Pnueli  elected as a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

    2000
    Maria Gorelik recipient of the 2008 Morris L. Levinson Prize in Mathematics awarded by the Scientific Council of the Weizmann Institute.
    David Harel  awarded an Honorary Fellowship of The Open University.
    Uriel Feige  recipient of the 2000 Morris L. Levinson Prize in Mathematics awarded by the Scientific Council of the Weizmann Institute.
    Amir Pnueli  awarded the Israel Prize for Computer Sciences Research.