Prof. Israel Koren is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and was honoured as a Fellow of the IEEE “For contributions to the field of fault-tolerant VLSI systems.” in 1991. He has been a consultant to numerous companies including Analog Devices, AMD, IBM, Intel and National Semiconductor.

Prof. Koren's current research interests are Fault-Tolerant Systems, VLSI Yield and Reliability, Secure Cryptographic Systems, and Computer architecture and Arithmetic. He has published over 250 publications in refereed journals and conferences, and authored two textbooks. He served as General Chair, Program Chair and Program Committee member for numerous conferences.