David Peleg is an Israeli computer scientist. He is a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science

Weizmann Institute of Science

The Weizmann Institute of Science , known as Machon Weizmann, is a university and research institute in Rehovot, Israel. It differs from other Israeli universities in that it offers only graduate and post-graduate studies in the sciences....

, holding the Norman D. Cohen Professorial Chair of Computer Sciences, and the present dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science in Weizmann Institute.
He received his Ph.D.

Ph.D.

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 from the Weizmann Institute under the supervision of David Harel

David Harel

David Harel is a professor of computer science at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Born in London, England, he was Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the institute for seven years.-Biography:...

. He has published numerous papers and a book, chaired leading conferences in computer science, and is an editor of several scientific journals.

In 2008, he was awarded the Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing

Dijkstra Prize

The Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing is given for outstanding papers on the principles of distributed computing, whose significance and impact on the theory and/or practice of distributed computing has been evident for at least a decade...

 along with Baruch Awerbuch for their 1990 paper “Sparse partitions.”