Michel Bercovier

Born on 10/9/41 in Lyon,France.

Docteur d’Etat ès Science,

Professor of Sceintific Computing,

School of Computer Science and Eng.

91904 Jerusalem, Israel.

E-mail:berco@cs.huji.ac.il Tel: + 972 26584961 mobile +972544207844 or +33633026038

   http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~berco                          Fax: + 972 26758958

Professor Michel Bercovier is a well-known researcher in Computer Aided Design and in Scientific Computation. He developed new Finite Element Methods for fluid flows and incompressible materials that are universally implemented. He has made important contributions to the integration of Computer Aided Design ( CAD ) and Analysis, developed new methods in surface design and integrated Optimal control methods in CAD. He has always been involved in multidisciplinary research , teaming with surgeons, biologists and pharmacologists( artificial heart valve modeling, Ca+ discharge in axons , keratotomical surgery, drug release models…) He carries joint research with INRIA, Université Pierre & Marie Currie, EPFL, MIT among others. He is currently developping numerical methods in ISOGEOMETRIC ANALYSIS (IGA).

Prof. Bercovier earned his D. Es Sc. in 1976 at the Faculté des Sciences de Paris. He was assistant professor at the University of Rouen (1969 - 1972) were he created the Computation Center, director of applications and services at the Hebrew University Computer Center (1973 - 1976). He joined the School of Applied Sciences of the Hebrew University as a Lecturer in 1977 and moved to its Institute of Computer Science in 1986. From 1987 to 2007, he held the Bertold Badler Chair of Computer Science. In 96-98 he set up the Computer Science department of a new university at Paris- La Defense. From 1999 to 2007 he was in charge of the W3C office in Israel, and thus very active in the development of the Internet. He still follows this activity through ISOC-IL.From Oct. 2010 he is also the head of Computer Science at the Hadassah College, Jerusalem.

All these years he has been involved in industrial research in France (Chief Consultant for Kleber and Michelin (1972 – 1985), Hutchinson (1990- ), Pechiney (1992- ), L’Oréal (1996- ), France Telecom R&D 2002-2003), Biofront (2009-) etc…and in Israel. He is the member of the editorial board of several scientific journals. He is the Honorary Chairman of the WUA-CFD and a member of SIAM, EMU and ACM, on the board of SIA (Automotive Engineering Society in France) and ECCOMAS. He was a visiting fellow for long periods at IBM, Digital and Matra. He is the author of over 80 papers and has advised more than 40 M.Sc. and Ph.D.

He contributed to the creation of several Hi-Tech companies. FDI ( now part of Ansys), a US company, was based on his research, as was Bercom the leading CAD/CAE Israeli firm, moreover as Chairman of Aleph, 1986 - 1996 (now Ex Libris) he was instrumental in turning a small start up into a world leader in computer systems for libraries. He contributed to the creation of the R&D team of Visiowave (Lausanne) acquired by General Electric., He is on the board of Numeca(Bruxelles) , EzFace (Israel),Biofront (Paris)

(Dec 2010)