Dr. Berkman Omer
Fields of Research
Short Bio
Dr. Omer Berkman is a faculty in the Academic College of Tel Aviv Yaffo since
1995. He received his Ph.D. in 1991 from Tel Aviv university. His Ph.D. work
centered on the design and analysis of extremely fast parallel algorithms in diverse
areas such as comparison-based problems, VLSI design and computational geometry.
From 1991 to 1993 Omer served in the faculty of King's College London and did
some work on string matching algorithms. In 1993 Omer joined Algorithmic Research
Israel (ARX) where he worked full time until 1995 and as a consultant for another 12
years. In ARX Omer designed, developed and analyzed security products and
protocols and did research work on tracing traitors in broadcasting services and on the
banking PIN standard. During the years 2010-2012, Omer was a visiting Scientist in
Google (NYC office) where he developed a new protocol for mitigating Man-in-the-
Middle attacks as well as a prototype for a stronger password reset mechanism. In
addition to parallel algorithms, security and string matching, Omer's research touches
Turing machines, systems biology and corporate governance.
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
1. The impact of audit committee expertise on auditor resources: the case of
Israel, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 55:579–603, 2020
(with Shlomith D. Zuta).
2. Reconsidering the mandate of the audit committee: evidence from corporate
governance in Israel, International Corporate Governance and Regulation
(Advances in Financial Economics Series), 20:187-207, 2018 (with Shlomith
D. Zuta).
3. Regulatory On/Off Minimization of Metabolic Flux Changes After Genetic
Perturbations, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS),
102: 7695-7700, 2005 (with Tomer Shlomi and Eytan Ruppin).
4. Element distinctness on one-tape Turing machines, Acta Informatica 40, 2:81-
94, 2003 (with Amir M. Ben-Amram and Holger Petersen).
5. Efficient dynamic traitor tracing, SIAM Journal on Computing 30, 6:1802-
1828, 2001(with Michal Parnas and Jiri Sgall).
6. All cycles are edge magic, Ars Combinatoria, 59:145-151, 2001(with Michal
Parnas and Yehuda Roditty).
7. Triply-logarithmic upper and lower bounds for minimum, range minima, and
related problems with integer inputs, J. Algorithms 23:197-215, 1998 (with
Yossi Matias and Prabhakar Ragde).
8. A Fast parallel algorithm for finding the convex hull of a sorted point set,
International Computational Geometry and Applications, 6:231-241, 1996
(with B. Schieber and U. Vishkin).
9. The subtree max gap problem with application to parallel string covering,
Information and Computation 123:1, 127-137, 1995 (with Costas S. Iliopoulos
and Kunsoo Park).
10. Fast parallel algorithms for minimum and related problems with small integer
inputs, Parallel Processing Letters 5, 2:223-230, 1995 (with Yossi Matias).
11. Almost fully parallel parentheses matching, Discrete Applied Mathematics,
57:11-28, 1995 (with Uzi Vishkin).
12. Top-bottom routing around a rectangle is as easy as computing prefix minima,
SIAM J. Computing 23:449-465, 1994 (with Joseph JaJa, Sridhar
Krishnamurthy, Ramakrishna Thurimella and Uzi Vishkin).
13. Randomized range-maxima in nearly constant parallel time, J. Computational
Complexity 2:350-373, 1992 (with Yossi Matias and Uzi Vishkin).
14. Finding level-ancestors in trees, J. Computer and System Sciences, 48:214-
230, 1994 (with Uzi Vishkin).
15. Recursive star-tree parallel data structure, SIAM J. Computing, 22:221-242,
1993 (with Uzi Vishkin).
16. On parallel integer merging, Information and Computation 106:266-285, 1993
(with Uzi Vishkin).
17. Optimal doubly logarithmic parallel algorithms based on finding all nearest
smaller values. J. Algorithms 14:344 - 370 (1993) (with Baruch Schieber and
Uzi Vishkin).
Refereed Conference Presentations
18. The Impact of Audit Committee Size and Composition on Negative Events in
the Life of a Company: The Case of Israel, in the 26th European Financial
Management Association (EFMA) conference, 2017 (with Shlomith Zuta).
19. Bidirectional Vouching for Trusted Handshakes: How to Keep your Server on
a Leash, in Proc. 11th International Conference on Cryptology and Network
Security (CANS 2012), 2012 (with Benny Pinkas and Moti Yung).
20. Mitigating Emerging Man-in-the-Middle Attacks with Wireless Hardware
Tokens, in Proc. 10th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and
Network Security (ACNS '12), 2012 (with Assaf Ben-David, Yossi Matias,
Sarvar Patel, Cem Paya and Moti Yung).
21. The unbearable lightness of PIN cracking, in Proc. 11th International
Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), 2007 (with
Odelia Moshe Ostrovsky).
22. Constraint based modeling of perturbed organisms: A ROOM for
improvement, 12th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for
Molecular Biology (ISMB), 2004 (with Tomer Shlomi and Eytan Ruppin).
23. Efficient dynamic traitor tracing, in ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete
Algorithms, 2000 (with Michal Parnas and Jiri Sgall).
24. On the power of randomization for the Common PRAM, in Proc. 3rd Israel
Symp, On Theory of Computing and Systems, 1995 (with Yossi Matias and
Philip B. Gibbons).
25. Fast parallel algorithms for minimum and related problems with small integer
inputs IPPS, 1995 (with Yossi Matias).
26. The subtree max gap problem with application to parallel string covering, in
Proc. 5th ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 1994 (with Costas S.
Iliopoulos and Kunsoo Park).
27. Triply-logarithmic upper and lower bounds for minimum, range minima, and
related problems with integer inputs, in Proc. 3rd Workshop on Algorithms and
Data Structures, Springer LNCS 709, 1993 (with Yossi Matias and Prabhakar
Ragde).
28. Randomized range-maxima in nearly constant parallel time, in Proc. 3rd
International Symposium on Algorithms & Computation, 1992 (with Yossi
Matias and Uzi Vishkin).
29. Some triply logarithmic parallel algorithms, in Proc. 31st IEEE Symp. on
Foundation of Computer Science, pp. 871-881, 1990 (with Joseph JaJa Sridhar
Krishnamurthy, Ramakrishna Thurimella and Uzi Vishkin).
30. Recursive star-tree parallel data structure, in Proc. 30th IEEE Symp on
Foundation of Computer Science, pp. 196-202, 1989 (with Uzi Vishkin).
31. Highly parallelizable problems, in Proc. 21st ACM Symp. on Theory of
Computing, pp. 309-319, 1989 (with Dany Breslauer, Zvi Galil, Baruch
Schieber and Uzi Vishkin).
In preparation
Does effort pay off? Evidence from internal audit in Israel (with Shlomith Zuta).
Patents:
1. Privacy preserving knowledge and factor possession tests for persistent
authentication, Patent number: 8949960, Filed: March 15, 2013 (with Moti
Yung).
2. User Authentication method, Patent number: 8838973, Filed: February 28,
2012 (with Moti Yung).