Eli Shamir

Eli Shamir
אלי שמיר
Shamir in c. 1990
Born(1934-07-01)1 July 1934
Died5 March 2026(2026-03-05) (aged 91)
Alma materHebrew University
Known forpumping lemma
Scientific career
FieldsRandomized and probabilistic algorithms, Communication networks, Natural language processing
Thesis Hilbert Transforms On a Half Line and Mixed Elliptic Boundary Problems in the Plane  (1963)
Doctoral advisorShmuel Agmon
Doctoral students

Eliahu "Eli" Shamir (Hebrew: אליהו (אלי) שמיר; 1 July 1934 – 5 March 2026) was an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist, the Jean and Helene Alfassa Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.