Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities; Weizmann Institute of Science
David Harel
- 2025
- Speaker
- Engineering & Technology
David Harel is an Institute Professor of computer science at the Weizmann Institute of Science and is currently the President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He has been at Weizmann since 1980, and is incumbent of the William Sussman Professorial Chair. He was Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from 1989 to 1995, and was Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science from 1998 for seven years. He was also co-founder of I-Logix, Inc. in 1984, which was acquired by Telelogic in 2006, and which, in turn, was acquired by IBM in 2008.
His current work focuses on software and systems engineering, visual languages and their underlying methodologies and tools, the modeling and analysis of biological systems, the synthesis and communication of smell, and the analysis of prosody.
David Harel has received numerous prizes and honorary doctorates and is member of several Academies.
Furthermore, he is an ardent peace and human rights activist (see some op-ed articles here)
