Bio-sketch and Research Interests
Bio-sketch and Research Interests
Yair Censor was born in Rishon LeZion,
Israel, in 1943. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc.
and D.Sc. degrees in mathematics from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in
Haifa, Israel, in 1967, 1969 and 1975, respectively. From 1977 to 1979 he was
Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the State University of New York
(SUNY) at Buffalo, NY, USA, and Research Associate with the Medical Image Processing
Group (MIPG) there.
Dr. Censor joined in 1979 the Department
of Mathematics at the University of Haifa, Mt. Carmel, Haifa, Israel, where he holds
the rank of Full Professor since 1989. With retirement mandatory at the age of 68
in Israeli universities, he became Professor Emeritus on October 1, 2012, continuing
his scientific research work without change. He founded (in 2002) The Center for Mathematics and Scientific Computation
(CMSC) at the University of Haifa and headed it until 2017. He was a visiting professor or a visiting
scholar at The University of
Pennsylvania (PENN), Philadelphia, PA, USA;
Linköping University (LiU),
Linköping, Sweden; The Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada (IMPA), Rio de
Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; The University of Cyprus (UCY), Nicosia, Cyprus; The Ciudad
Universitaria de Buenos Aires (UBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina; The Thomas Jefferson University (TJU),
Philadelphia, PA, USA; The Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical
School, Boston, MA, USA; The Beijing International Center of Mathematics, School of
Mathematical Sciences, Peking University (PKU), Beijing, P.R. China; The Institute of
Operations
Research, Department of Applied Mathematics, Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU), Beijing,
P.R. China; The Graduate
Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), NY, USA; The Mathematics
Division of
the National Center for Theoretical Sciences (NCTS/TPE), Taipei, Taiwan; and the Loma Linda
University (LLU) in Loma Linda, CA, USA.
Dr.
Censor works in Computational Mathematics
where his main fields of interest
include: Optimization Theory (mathematical theory and development of algorithms),
Linear Algebra and Convex Analysis (large and sparse systems of linear and nonlinear
equations or inequalities), Numerical Analysis, Inverse Problems, Optimization
Theory Techniques in Image Reconstruction from Projections, and in
Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT), Algorithms for Parallel Computing and
Iterative methods in matrix balancing, transportation problems and discrete
tomography.
Dr. Censor has published over 170 research
articles in refereed scientific journals, conference proceedings and as book
chapters. He co-authored with S.A. Zenios the book: Parallel Optimization:
Theory, Algorithms, and Applications, Oxford University Press, New York, NY,
USA, 1997. For this book he received, together with Professor Zenios, from the
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) "The 1999
ICS (INFORMS Computing
Society) Prize for
Research Excellence In The Interface Between Operations Research and Computer
Science". Dr. Censor served as Associate Editor for the journal IEEE Transactions on Medical
Imaging from 1992 to 2004.
A list of publications and downloadable
files of some papers are available
from Dr. Censor's homepage and a
detailed Curriculum Vitae is available upon request.
Yair
Censor is married to Erga Censor and is the father of Aviv, Nitzan and Keren
and grandfather of Ofek, Noga, Neta, Almog, Yoav, Dotan and Yarden.
Last page update: January 7, 2024.