Ran Gelles

Ran Gelles is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Bar-Ilan University. He received his B.Sc. (Summa Cum Laude) and M.Sc. from the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology in 2003 and 2009, respectively, and his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2014. After a postdoctoral research associate position at Princeton University (2014–2016), he joined Bar-Ilan University in 2016. His research focuses on resilient communication protocols and distributed systems.

• Education
  • B.Sc., M.Sc. – Technion–Israel Institute of Technology
  • Ph.D. – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
• Visiting Positions
  • CWI, Amsterdam (2011)
  • AT&T, New Jersey (2012)
  • Princeton University (2013)
  • Paderborn University (2022–2023)
  • CISPA – Helmholtz Center for Information Security (2023)

His recent work includes a 2024 publication in Interactive Coding with Unbounded Noise at RANDOM 2024, reflecting his expertise in noise-tolerant communication and distributed systems. He is also co-advising Ph.D. student Agajan Sahedov.

Notable affiliations include sabbatical stays at Paderborn University, CISPA, and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (2022–2023). In February 2025, he joined the editorial board of Scientific Reports (Springer-Nature).