Israel Cidon is a Professor in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering 
at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and the head of the 
Center for Communication and Information Technologies. He holds a B.Sc. and D.Sc. in 
Electrical Engineering from the Technion  (1980 and 1984 respectively).  
His research interests are in the field of converged networks, 
wire line and wireless network architectures, quality of service and distributed algorithms. 
Between 1985 and 1994, he was with by IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center NY, 
where he served as the Manager of the Network Architecture and Algorithms group, 
leading research and implementations of converged multi-media wide area and local area networks. 
In 1994 and 1995, he was manager of High-Speed Networking at Sun Microsystems Labs, CA, 
where he founded Sun's first networking research group and lead projects in ATM fast signaling and switch architecture.

Israel Cidon was a founding editor for the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and Editor 
for Network Algorithms for the IEEE Transactions on Communications. 
He was the recipient of the IBM Outstanding Innovation Awards for his work on the PARIS project and 
topology update algorithms (1989 and 1993 respectively). 
He has authored over 120 journal and conference papers and holds 15 US patents.