Prof. Dalit Naor holds a BSc. from the Technion, a Ph.D and an MS.C from the University of Californian at Davis, and was a postdoc at Stanford and Tel-Aviv University. She joined as the Dean of the School of Computer after spending many years at IBM Research. Dalit held numerous positions at IBM Research, being a senior technical staff member and an experienced senior manager. Dalit is the inventor of 17 patents, co-author of standards, and the author of 37 academic papers and a book chapter. She is an expert in Cloud platforms and Storage systems, and worked extensively with cloud object stores to support efficient big data analytics. Prior to working with Cloud and Storage Dalit co-invented, developed and deployed CPRM/CPPM, a technology for Content Protection for Recordable Media and Pre-Recorded Media for DVDs, protecting against illegal copying of content. During her postdoc, Dalit specialized in Bioinformatics. 
In her current role as the Dean, Dalit will strengthen the ties of the school with the vibrant hi-tech ecosystem in Israel, while ensuring excellence and relevance of our academic program, making our school a leading program in Computer Science in Israel.