Avi Mendelson is a professor at the CS department at Technion. He has industrial and academic experience in various areas, such as Computer architecture, Hardware Security, Hardware accelerators, Architecture for machine learning, Power Management, and Reliability.
He graduated from the CS department, Technion, BSC (1979) and MSC (1982) and got his Ph.D. (1990) from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (UMASS). Among his industrial jobs, he worked 11 years as a senior researcher and principal engineer at Intel. Among his achievements was being the chief architect of the CMP (multicore-on-chip) feature of the first dual-core processors Intel developed. For this leadership and innovation, he received the Intel Achievement Award. For the last few years, he has been focusing on innovation-related activities; e.g., he used to manage the academic-related activities for Microsoft R&D Israel.
As part of his academic work, he focuses on CPU architecture, Hardware Security, and Accelerators for machine learning. He is part of the Hiroshi Fujiwara Cyber Security Research Center at the Technion, where he leads many hardware security-related activities. Professor Mendelson was affiliated with Nanyang University in Singapore under the MediaTek Chair.
Avi Mendelson was a member of the ACM-Europe Council (2009-2014) and the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors (2017-2019 as a member and second VP). He served as a member and chair of the Eckert-Mauchly Award committee. He also served as an associate editor in different Journals, such as IEEE CAL, IEEE Transaction on Computers, and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing