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Nathan (Nati) Linial is a Professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he has maintained a distinguished academic career spanning several decades. His research bridges multiple mathematical disciplines with theoretical computer science.
Linial's primary research interests encompass Combinatorics, Theory of Algorithms, Geometry, Analysis, and Computational Molecular Biology. His work often explores the deep connections between discrete mathematics and computer science, particularly focusing on high-dimensional combinatorial structures, metric embeddings, and their algorithmic applications.
His publication record demonstrates consistent contributions across decades, with recent work focusing on high-dimensional permutations, simplicial complexes, graph theory, and coding theory. Linial has developed significant theoretical frameworks for understanding complex combinatorial structures and their geometric representations.
Among his notable achievements is being named an AMS Fellow and receiving the 2008 Conant Prize for the influential survey paper "Expander graphs and their applications" co-authored with S. Hoory and A. Wigderson. His research has shaped multiple areas of theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics.
Linial has served on the editorial boards of prestigious journals including Israel Journal of Mathematics (where he was Chief Editor 2013-2017), Random Structures and Algorithms, and Combinatorica. He has supervised numerous students throughout his career and maintains active research collaborations worldwide.
