Nathan S. Netanyahu (Hebrew: נָתָן נְתַנְיָהוּ; born 28 November 1951) is an Israeli computer scientist and a professor of computer science at Bar-Ilan University.
He did his graduate studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, earning a Ph.D. in 1992 under the supervision of David Mount and Azriel Rosenfeld.
[2] Netanyahu has co-authored highly cited research papers on nearest neighbor search[3] and k-means clustering.
[4] He has published many papers on computer chess, was the local organizer of the 12th World Computer Chess Championship in 2004, and was program co-chair for the 4th International Conference on Computers and Games, colocated with the WCCC.
Another frequent topic in his research is image registration.