Resume

Prof. David Hay is a professor of Computer Science at the Selim and Rachel Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hebrew University, where he is also chairing the Federmann Cybersecurity Research Center and is a co-director of the Fraunhofer Project Center for Cybersecurity.  Since 2021, Prof. Hay is the Chief Science Officer of BBT.live. He received his B.A. (summa cum laude) and PhD degrees in computer science from the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, in 2001 and 2007, respectively. In addition, he was with IBM Haifa Research Labs, Haifa, Israel; Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA, USA; the Electronic Department, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy; and the Electrical Engineering Department with Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. In 2010, he co-founded (with Prof. Brembler-Barr) the DEEPNESS lab, focusing on deep packet inspection in next-generation network devices. He has served as a technical program committee member of numerous networking conferences, and since 2018 serves as an editor of ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking. His research interests are in computer networks—in particular, network algorithmics, packet classification, deep packet inspection, network survivability and resilience, software-defined networking, network-function virtualization, and various aspects of network security.