Yoram Ofek (Hebrew: יורם אופק; September 25, 1950 – December 9, 2009) was a Marie Curie Chair and full professor in the Information Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Trento, Italy.
In 1979 Yoram Ofek was a researcher at Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, and in 1982 at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
In 1998 Prof. Ofek and Prof. Mario Baldi[4] founded Synchrodyne Networks, a company that developed switching technology for the Internet.
[5] He became the Marie Curie Chair and full professor at the University of Trento in 2004, where he also taught graduate and master level courses.
Prof. Ofek was directing IP-FLOW (a recursive acronym for "IP FLows over Optical and Wireless").