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Lenore Zuck

Lenore D. Zuck is an Israeli-American computer scientist whose research involves formal methods in software engineering, as well as information privacy. She is a research professor of computer science at the University of Illinois Chicago.

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Lenore D. Zuck
לינור ד. צוק
Born1958 (age 67–68)
Tel Aviv, Israel
Alma materTechnion – Israel Institute of Technology, Weizmann Institute of Science
Known forFormal methods in software engineering, Information privacy
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois Chicago
Amir Pnueli

Lenore D. Zuck (Hebrew: לינור ד. צוק; born 1958) is an Israeli-American computer scientist whose research involves formal methods in software engineering, as well as information privacy.1 She is a research professor of computer science at the University of Illinois Chicago.2

Education and career

Zuck was born in Tel Aviv in 1958, and earned a bachelor's degree in 1979 from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. She went to the Weizmann Institute of Science for graduate study in computer science, earning a master's degree in 19833 and a Ph.D. in 1987.4 Her doctoral dissertation, Past Temporal Logic, concerned temporal logic, and was supervised by Amir Pnueli.5

She was an associate professor of computer science at Yale University,4 and then at New York University, before moving to the University of Illinois Chicago in the early 2000s.6

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Selected publications

References

References

  1. "Privacy in the Era of Big Data", Discovery Partners Institute, University of Illinois, retrieved 2023-03-21
  2. "Lenore Zuck", Profiles, University of Illinois Chicago Computer Science, retrieved 2023-03-21
  3. Author biography from Pnueli, Amir; Zuck, Lenore (March 1986), "Verification of multiprocess probabilistic protocols", Distributed Computing, 1 (1): 53–72, doi:10.1007/bf01843570, S2CID 1317942
  4. Graduate handbook: Faculty, Yale Computer Science, 1997–1998, retrieved 2023-03-21
  5. Lenore Zuck at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. "Lenore Zuck: Microcode Verification", Talk announcement, Carnegie Mellon University, October 21, 2005, retrieved 2023-03-21
  7. Virginia Gold (December 4, 2014). "ACM's Distinguished Computer Scientists, Engineers and Educators Cited for Global Reach, Real-World Impact: 2014 Members Recognized for Contributions to Hardware, Software and Communications". Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 2026-01-12.
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