Dana Ron

Dana Ron is a computer scientist and professor of electrical engineering at Tel Aviv University in Israel, and one of the pioneers of research in property testing. Born in 1964, she took her bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her doctorate there in 1995 in the area of machine learning, then held a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship at MIT, a Bunting fellowship and a Radcliffe fellowship at Harvard. Her research covers sublinear-time algorithms, in particular property testing, along with randomized algorithms and computational learning theory. Her joint work with Oded Goldreich and Shafi Goldwasser on property testing and its connection to learning and approximation appeared in the Journal of the ACM in 1998, and she later wrote surveys of the field for Foundations and Trends in Theoretical Computer Science.