Ron Yair Pinter ( he, רון יאיר פינטר) is an Israeli

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specializing in computational systems biology,

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and

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. He is Professor of Computer Science and the Rappaport Medical School at the Technion in

Haifa Haifa ( he, חֵיפָה ' ; ar, حَيْفَا ') is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropol ...

, Israel. He was a founding member of the Israeli Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, . In the past, he has been a Program Manager at the

IBM Haifa Research Laboratory IBM is a globally integrated enterprise operating in 170 countries. IBM's R&D history in Israel began in 1972 when Professor Josef Raviv established the IBM Israel Scientific Center in the Technion's Computer Science Building in Haifa. Today, ov ...

and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology, and Vice President for Research and Development at Compugen. He is an author and co-author of more than 90 books and

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ed articles, all of which were cited more than 2500 times. His contributions include defining (with

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and Martin Golumbic) the notion of

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s, and pioneering analysis of

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Biography

Pinter was born in Haifa, Israel in 1953 to parents of German Jewish descent both refugees from Nazi Germany in the 1930s. After finishing at the top of his class in the

Hebrew Reali School , motto_translation = ''Walk Humbly'' , address = Hertzel 16 , city = Haifa , zipcode = 3312103 , country = Israel , coordinates = , other_name ...

class of 1971, he obtained a B.Sc. (''Summa cum laude'') in Computer Science from the Technion, in the first class (1975) which started the program at freshman year. At the Technion he met his wife,

Shlomit Shlomit ( he, שלומית) is a village in southern Israel. Located in the Negev desert, around 700 meters from the Egyptian border, it falls under the jurisdiction of Eshkol Regional Council Eshkol Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית ...

, also a computer scientist. The two have co-authored several papers in the field during the 1990s. He then went on to pursue graduate studies at

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, obtaining an M.Sc. in 1980 and a

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in 1982, both in EECS. His advisors were Charles Leiserson and

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. Before turning his focus to Bioinformatics, Pinter most notably co-defined the notion of

s and made significant contributions to the field of

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. After several years as VP for R&D at Compugen he joined the Technion in 2001 and has been a faculty member there since. During this time he has important contributions to the discrete modeling and analysis of biological networks, providing insights about their functionality in spite of the relatively simple and highly efficient computational techniques. In addition, he contributed to the discovery of Photosynthesic reactions in viruses.

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External links

Personal home page

Page on the Technion's site

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