Hagit Attiya

Hagit Attiya (Hebrew: חגית עטיה) is an Israeli computer scientist who holds the Harry W. Labov and Charlotte Ullman Labov Academic Chair of Computer Science at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel.

in mathematics and computer science in 1981, a master's degree from the same university in 1983, and a doctorate in 1987, under the supervision of Danny Dolev.

[2] After postdoctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she joined the Technion faculty in 1990.

[4] In 2011, Attiya and her co-authors Danny Dolev and Amotz Bar-Noy won the Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing for their work on implementing shared memory using message passing, published in the Journal of the ACM in 1995.

[5] She was also the recipient of the Michael Bruno Memorial Award from Yad Hanadiv in 2011.