Zvi Lotker is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at Bar-Ilan University, Israel since 2018. He graduated with a double B.Sc. in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Industrial Engineering, from Ben Gurion University in 1991. In 1997, he obtained an M.Sc. in Mathematics, and in 2003, obtained his Ph.D.

in Distributed Algorithms, both from Tel Aviv University. He was Postdoctoral Fellow at the CWI in Amsterdam, MPI in Saarbrücken Germany, and Mascotte in Nice France from 2003 to 2006. He was Associate Professor in the Communication Systems Engineering department at Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva in the Communication Systems Engineering department from 2010 to 2020.His main research areas are communication networks, online algorithms, sensor networks, and recently, social networks.