As with every company, it’s important to have the right advisors in place; advisors with a wealth of experience and expertise.

We’ve been lucky enough to have some very accomplished and intelligent people actively advising us. We’re putting together a strong advisory board made up of experts in academia, business and the blockchain industry.

We’ll be introducing you to more and more of our advisors as we go.

The first advisor we’d like to introduce you to is Professor Idit Keidar. Idit brings a wealth of technical expertise to Orbs.

About Idit Keidar

Idit is the Lord Leonard Wolfson Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at the Viterbi Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion, where she heads the Networked Software Systems Laboratory (NSSL). She received her BSc (summa cum laude), MSc (summa cum laude) and PhD at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1992, 1994, and 1998 respectively.

Professor Keidar is a world renowned expert in distributed computing and concurrency, having developed numerous distributed and networked systems, including for storage, multicast, group communication, distributed transactions, peer-to-peer messaging, mobile networks, cloud services, and concurrent programming. She has published over 100 papers in competitive peer-reviewed journals and conferences, which were cited more than 5300 times; she supervised 3 postdocs who are now faculty members, 13 PhD and 20 Masters students.

She has consulted for a number of industrial companies building distributed systems. Professor Keidar has served on over 30 program committees, and as PC Chair of DISC 2009, SYSTOR 2015, TRANSACT 2017, PODC 2018, and PPoPP 2019. She was a columnist for SIGACT News, a guest editor for Distributed Computing, and on the editorial board of IEEE CAL.

Her awards include PLDI’16 Distinguished Paper and SPAA’08 Best Paper Awards (top 1% of submissions), Henry M. Taub and Dudi Ben-Aharon Research Awards, Yanai and Muriel and David Jackow Teaching Awards, IBM Faculty Awards, Google Research Award, Allon Fellowship, NSF CISE Postdoctoral Fellowship, Rothschild Yad-Hanadiv Fellowship, Eshkol and Leibnitz Scholarships for Ph.D. students, and Wolf Foundation and Intel Prizes for Ph.D. students.

Welcome Idit!