Avraham Leff
Professor Of Computer Science at Yeshiva University
Village of Spring Valley, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAvraham Leff is a PhD-trained computer scientist and Professor of Computer Science at Yeshiva University with over three decades of research and industry experience, including a long tenure as a Research Staff Member at IBM TJ Watson Research Center. He focuses on distributed systems, data science education, and tools that boost developer productivity and application performance, and has helped design new curricula to bridge academia and industry. Comfortable translating cutting-edge research into practical syllabi and projects, he works closely with industry advisors to prepare students for real-world systems challenges. Based in Spring Valley, New York, he combines deep research credentials with hands-on experience in algorithms and data middleware, bringing both scholarly rigor and pragmatic engineering to teaching and mentorship.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New York
Hebrew
Github Skills (4)
algorithms6
researchkit6
skeleton5
api4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
Yeshiva-University-CS/COM1300StubbedAssignments
May 2019 - Dec 2021
Set of "stubbed" (or "skeleton") classes specifying the public API required by a given assignment
Contributions:12 commits in 2 years 7 months
apipublic-apiskeleton
Yeshiva-University-CS/COM2545StubbedAssignments
Sep 2019 - Dec 2022
Stubbed assignment code for COM2545, Introduction to Algorithms
Contributions:37 commits in 3 years 3 months
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