Hagit Messer Yaron
Israeli engineer
Hagit Messer Yaron (Hebrew: חגית מסר-ירון; born May 13, 1953) is an Israeli electrical engineer and businesswoman. She is a professor of electrical engineering. She is the Kranzberg Chair Professor in Signal Processing at Tel Aviv University. She was the President of Open University of Israel from 2008 to 2013. Messer Yaron is the first woman in Israel to be appointed as a full professor of electrical engineering.
Biography
Messer Yaron was born and raised in Ramat HaSharon. Her mother Tova was a biology teacher and her father Oded served as a director general at the Ministry of Labor and as the Supervisor of Banks in Bank of Israel.
Messer Yaron graduated from Tel Aviv University in 1977, and completed her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering there in 1984, under the supervision of Yeheskel Bar-Ness. After Post-Doc at Yale University with Peter M. Schultheiss she joined the Faculty of Engineering at Tel Aviv University in 1986. Messer Yaron is married and mother of three.
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