Amos Tanay BSc, MSc, PhD

Prof. Amos Tanay earned his BSc (1996) and MSc (2001) in mathematics, and a PhD with distinction in computer science (2005) from Tel Aviv University. While in graduate school, he headed a team that developed algorithms for an optimization company, Schema Group, then co-founded an optical networks technology start-up, Optivera Technologies, and headed its R&D effort for two years. After conducting postgraduate research at Rockefeller University, he joined the Weizmann Institute in 2007. Today he serves as the Scientific Director of the Ilana and Pascal Mantoux Institute for Bioinformatics and is intricately involved in the Bench-to-Bedside program.