Dr. Jhonatan Tavori

Jhonatan Tavori’s PhD research at Tel Aviv University’s Blavatnik School of Computer Science and AI focused on analyzing distributed systems and networks under malicious behaviors and attacks. He identified vulnerabilities, critical weak points, financial attacks, and inefficiencies in cloud applications, and formed a foundation for enhancing cloud resilience through strategic planning.

For his PhD work, Jhonatan Tavori was awarded the Deutsch Prize for PhD candidates (2024), and the Blavatnik Prize for Outstanding Israeli Doctoral Graduates in Computer Science (2025).
For his postdoc at the Data Science Institute’s Wireless and Mobile Networking (WiMNet) Lab at Columbia University, Dr. Tavori works on the NSF COSMOS testbed, which enables real-world experimentation on edge-cloud wireless technologies. Unlike traditional cloud systems, edge computing processes data closer to the source, making it suitable for applications such as smart cities and autonomous vehicles that depend on timely issue resolution to effectively control physical sensors and other devices. This marks a return to the WiMNet Lab for Dr. Tavori, who was a visiting scholar there at the end of his doctoral studies. He was selected for the 6-month position under the European Commission’s prestigious Next Generation Internet (NGI) Enrichers Transatlantic Fellowship Program.

Dr. Tavori began his advanced studies at age 13 at Israel’s Open University where he was recognized as the country’s youngest university student and profiled in the media. For each year in the program, he received the highest honors, and at the university’s graduation ceremony, he delivered the student address.
As a teaching assistant at the age of 17, Dr. Tavori discovered a love of teaching and he continued to do for several years. In 2024 he was voted onto the “Tel Aviv University 100 List” for Excellence in Teaching.

Dr. Tavori’s goal is to enhance the resilience of edge-cloud computing for smart-cities applications, including real-time traffic management. His interest and skills in the world of transportation earned him the Shlomo Smeltzer Institute for Smart Transportation Innovation Scholarship in both 2023 and 2025.