Erez Petrank

Erez Petrank is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, where he holds the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Chair. His research focuses on concurrent computing, programming languages, and systems with an emphasis on memory management. Additional interests include parallelism, cryptography, data structures, approximation algorithms, and distributed computing.

Research Trends

Recent publications highlight his work on safe memory reclamation (ERA Theorem, VBR), lock-free data structures (queues, stacks, B+ Trees), and persistent memory algorithms (NVTraverse, Mirror). These works span concurrent computing, distributed systems, and memory efficiency in multi-threaded environments.

Scientific Awards

• Distinguished Paper Award at Euro-Par 2015

Contact Information

Email: erez@cs.technion.ac.il
Office: Taub 528, Technion
Phone: +972-73-378-4942