Yair Censor (
Hebrew
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: יאיר צנזור, born November 29, 1943) is an
Israeli
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mathematician
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and a professor at the
University of Haifa
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, specializing in
computational mathematics
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and
optimization, as well as applications of these fields, in particular to
medical imaging
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and
radiation therapy
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treatment planning.
Biography
Yair Censor was born in
Rishon LeZion
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. After serving in the
IDF
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* Indian Defence Force, a part-time force, 1917
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* Israeli Diving Federation
* Interac ...
, he studied at the
Technion in Haifa, where he earned his
D.Sc.
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in 1975 under the supervision of Professor Adi Ben-Israel.
Academic career
Censor joined the department of mathematics at the University of Haifa in 1979, and became
full professor
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in 1989. His research focuses on mathematical aspects of Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (
IMRT). In 2002, he founded the Center for Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computation at the University of Haifa. In recent years he is involved with research about the Superiorization Methodology.
Together with S.A. Zenios, he co-authored the book ''Parallel Optimization: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications'' (
Oxford University Press
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, New York, NY, USA, 1997), for which he received the 1999 ICS (
INFORMS
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Computing Society) Prize for Research Excellence in the Interface Between Operations Research and Computer Science.
Active in the struggle to preserve the
academic freedom
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of the research universities in Israel, Censor was one of the founders of the Inter-Senate Committee (ISC) of the Universities for the Protection of Academic Independence.
ISC - Inter Senate Committee of the Universities for the Protection of Academic Independence
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See also
* Education in Israel
References
External links
Yair Censor website
Convergence and Perturbation Resilience of Dynamic String-Averaging Projection Methods
An iterative approach to plan combination in radiotherapy
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1943 births
Academic staff of the University of Haifa
Israeli mathematicians
Living people