Ofer Zeitouni


Ofer Zeitouni is an Israeli mathematician, specializing in probability theory.

Biography

Zeitouni received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1980 from the Technion.
He obtained in 1986 his doctorate in electrical engineering under the supervision of
Moshe Zakai with the thesis Bounds on the Conditional Density and Maximum a posteriori Estimators for the Nonlinear Filtering Problem. As a postdoc he was a visiting assistant professor at Brown University and at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at MIT. He joined the Technion in 1989 as senior lecturer, and was promoted in 1991 to associate professor, and in 1997 to full professor in the department of electrical engineering. He is now a professor of Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute and at the Courant Institute, and was from 2002 to 2013 a part-time professor at the University of Minnesota.
His research deals with stochastic processes and filtering theory with applications to control theory, the spectral theory of random matrices, the theory of large deviations in probability theory, motion in random media,
and extremes of logarithmically correlated fields.
He was Invited Speaker with the talk Random Walks in Random Environments at the ICM in Beijing in 2002. Zeitouni was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2017, member
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019, and member of the
National Academy of Sciences in 2020.
He is married and has two children.

Selected publications

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