Tamar (Tami) Tamir (Hebrew: תמי תמיר; born 1968) is an Israeli computer scientist specializing in approximation algorithms and algorithmic mechanism design, especially for problems in resource allocation, scheduling, and packing problems.
She is a professor in the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science of Reichman University.
[1] Tamir was born in 1968, and graduated in 1992 from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in computer science.
[2] Her doctoral dissertation, Class-Constrained Resource Allocation Problems, was supervised by Hadas Shachnai.
[2][3] While still a graduate student, Tamir worked at Intel, in the Israel Software Lab, from 1994 to 1997, and had a summer position at Hewlett-Packard.