Zvi Kohavi

Zvi Kohavi is an Israeli computer engineer and professor emeritus at the Technion, author of the widely used textbook 'Switching and Finite Automata Theory,' a foundational text in digital logic and automata theory. He held senior leadership roles at the Technion, including director general, and taught at MIT and the University of Utah. As an Israeli academic he is part of the Jewish scientific community, though detailed biographical records such as his birth date are not publicly documented.