Education
Awerbuch was educated at the Technion in Haifa, Israel, earning a bachelor"s degree in 1978, a master"s degree in 1982, and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1984 under the supervision of Shimon Even.
Awerbuch was educated at the Technion in Haifa, Israel, earning a bachelor"s degree in 1978, a master"s degree in 1982, and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1984 under the supervision of Shimon Even.
He is known for his research on distributed computing. He worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral researcher, faculty member in applied mathematics, and research associate in computer science from 1984 until 1994, when he joined the Johns Hopkins faculty. Awerbuch"s former doctoral students include University of California, San Diego professor George Varghese.
Awerbuch has published many highly cited research papers on topics including
Cryptographic primitives for verifiable secret sharing and fault tolerant broadcasting
Synchronization of asynchronous distributed systems
Network routing methods that are both fault-tolerant and have a highly competitive throughput.
