2012 · book
Digital Logic Design: A Rigorous Approach
The personal page identifies Medina as co-author of this Cambridge University Press textbook on logic design.[100]
fault-tolerant hardware and network algorithms
מוטי מדינה
Identity: verifiedBar-Ilan's engineering profile links the Hebrew roster name and institutional email to Moti Medina's personal academic page. [100]
Documented foundation
Senior lecturer in Bar-Ilan engineering working on reliable hardware design and the design and analysis of online, approximation, distributed and local algorithms for networks.[100]
reliable hardware theoryonline algorithmsapproximation algorithmsdistributed graph algorithms
The personal academic page contains a short biography, education and research interests, but no standalone CV was verified.[100]
Representative records, not a complete publication list. Metadata confirms attribution; it does not independently replicate a result.
2012 · book
The personal page identifies Medina as co-author of this Cambridge University Press textbook on logic design.[100]
2 catalogued patent records · 1 identified family · family unassigned for 1 record
Coverage: Partial inventor search
Two inventions on the first-party patent list were inspected individually and attributed across Max Planck assignment. Moti/Mordechai equivalence is explicit on that list. Application/grant variants are grouped. No worldwide completeness claim.
US11520370B2 · Published 2022-12-06
Published patent document inspected
Publication assignee: Max Planck Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissenschaften eV
The inspected inventor field names Mordechai Medina. The first-party list explicitly resolves Moti/Mordechai Medina and lists this patent. Assignee means the observed original-assignee field; no current ownership conclusion.[298][421]
US10411720B2 · Published 2019-09-10
Published patent document inspected
Publication assignee: Max Planck Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissenschaften eV
The inspected inventor field names Moti Medina. The first-party list explicitly resolves Moti/Mordechai Medina and lists this patent. Assignee means the observed original-assignee field; no current ownership conclusion.[295][421]
Original evidence: not verified
No attributable patent record was verified in the bounded search; absence is not asserted.
Records are counted separately from identified families. Author-reported entries are labelled and may still need publication verification. Inventorship, publication-time applicant and current ownership are different facts. No legal-status, patentability or freedom-to-operate conclusion is made.
Scores prioritize research fit from 1–10; they are not probabilities.
Review: Reviewed with limitations
Proposed capability matches, not confirmed relationships. Scores are analyst judgments with low forecast confidence; researcher interests, capacity and feasibility need confirmation.
12 candidates
Connection 1
Original proposal
Proposal hypothesis: Gelles's interactive error-correcting protocols and Medina's reliable hardware models directly connect communication noise with computation faults.[57][58][100]
Proposed first test: Simulate one distributed computation with separate packet and memory faults; compare correctness, recovery time and redundancy cost to repetition coding.
Rank 1/12; fit 10/10 (4 topic overlap + 3 complementarity + 3 feasible first test). Preserved original co-membership proposal in o08. No strictly higher-scoring candidate displaces this original. Explicit joint fault assumptions are needed; the software test does not establish robustness to arbitrary physical faults. No automatic score boost for original membership. Equal scores use existing-first, then stable researcher ID.
Analyst proposal hypothesis, not an established collaboration, commitment, evidence-confidence rating or assessment of researcher quality; confirm participation and access before work.
Connection 2
Proposal hypothesis: Medina's reliable hardware methods and Yavits's memory-centric architectures directly connect architecture choices with recoverable compute errors.[100][104][105]
Proposed first test: Inject defined faults into a public genomic-kernel execution model and compare redundancy strategies on correct outputs and traffic overhead.
Rank 2/12; fit 10/10 (4 topic overlap + 3 complementarity + 3 feasible first test). New pairing outside the frozen portfolio co-member graph. Physical error distributions and fabricated-hardware costs remain unverified. Equal scores use existing-first, then stable researcher ID.
Analyst proposal hypothesis, not an established collaboration, commitment, evidence-confidence rating or assessment of researcher quality; confirm participation and access before work.
Connection 3
Original proposal
Proposal hypothesis: Somekh-Baruch can formalize channel reliability limits while Medina models how network and hardware recovery amplify or contain decoder errors.[87][100]
Proposed first test: Combine a finite-state faulty-node model with a mismatched decoder and compare end-to-end task failure against link-error rate alone.
Rank 3/12; fit 9/10 (3 topic overlap + 3 complementarity + 3 feasible first test). Preserved original co-membership proposal in o08. An added candidate, Leonid Yavits (10/10), ranks above this original because its stated pair-specific roles and first test score higher; this original is limited as follows: The proposed bridge depends on explicitly bounded fault dependence and cannot promise arbitrary-fault tolerance. No automatic score boost for original membership. Equal scores use existing-first, then stable researcher ID.
Analyst proposal hypothesis, not an established collaboration, commitment, evidence-confidence rating or assessment of researcher quality; confirm participation and access before work.
Connection 4
Proposal hypothesis: Teman's digital implementation and Medina's reliable hardware theory meet on the cost of preserving state under injected faults.[1][100]
Proposed first test: Inject bounded memory/control faults into a small digital model and compare redundancy schemes on recovery and added state.
Rank 4/12; fit 9/10 (3 topic overlap + 3 complementarity + 3 feasible first test). New pairing outside the frozen portfolio co-member graph. The fault model must be explicit; simulation is not radiation or silicon qualification. Equal scores use existing-first, then stable researcher ID.
Analyst proposal hypothesis, not an established collaboration, commitment, evidence-confidence rating or assessment of researcher quality; confirm participation and access before work.
Connection 5
Proposal hypothesis: Fish's low-power memory hardware and Medina's fault-tolerant algorithms can trade redundancy against energy in a common error model.[89][90][100]
Proposed first test: Compare checkpointing and replication in a memory-read simulator on undetected errors, extra accesses and latency.
Rank 5/12; fit 9/10 (3 topic overlap + 3 complementarity + 3 feasible first test). New pairing outside the frozen portfolio co-member graph. Hardware security and accidental-fault tolerance are different properties. Equal scores use existing-first, then stable researcher ID.
Analyst proposal hypothesis, not an established collaboration, commitment, evidence-confidence rating or assessment of researcher quality; confirm participation and access before work.
Connection 6
Proposal hypothesis: Izack Cohen's stochastic project scheduling and Medina's fault-tolerant online algorithms can test schedules when resources fail unexpectedly.[97][98][100]
Proposed first test: Simulate a multi-project queue with server failures and compare static buffers with online rescheduling on delay and recovery cost.
Rank 6/12; fit 9/10 (3 topic overlap + 3 complementarity + 3 feasible first test). New pairing outside the frozen portfolio co-member graph. The workload is synthetic; operational staffing decisions require domain validation. Equal scores use existing-first, then stable researcher ID.
Analyst proposal hypothesis, not an established collaboration, commitment, evidence-confidence rating or assessment of researcher quality; confirm participation and access before work.
Connection 7
Proposal hypothesis: Medina's fault-tolerant network algorithms and Leshem's distributed learning can separate recovery from node faults and adaptation to congestion.[100][111][112]
Proposed first test: Simulate node loss during a distributed optimization task; compare recovery time, objective error and extra messages with a static topology.
Rank 7/12; fit 9/10 (3 topic overlap + 3 complementarity + 3 feasible first test). New pairing outside the frozen portfolio co-member graph. An algorithmic fault model does not establish resistance to poisoned training data. Equal scores use existing-first, then stable researcher ID.
Analyst proposal hypothesis, not an established collaboration, commitment, evidence-confidence rating or assessment of researcher quality; confirm participation and access before work.
Connection 8
Proposal hypothesis: Medina and Ilan Cohen both develop online algorithms; a useful division is fault recovery versus resource-constrained scheduling.[100][119][120]
Proposed first test: Compare an online schedule with and without failure-aware reassignment on regret, missed deadlines and reassignment count.
Rank 8/12; fit 9/10 (4 topic overlap + 2 complementarity + 3 feasible first test). New pairing outside the frozen portfolio co-member graph. High algorithmic overlap reduces complementarity unless responsibilities are defined distinctly. Equal scores use existing-first, then stable researcher ID.
Analyst proposal hypothesis, not an established collaboration, commitment, evidence-confidence rating or assessment of researcher quality; confirm participation and access before work.
Connection 9
Original proposal
Proposal hypothesis: Zehavi's wireless link design can supply channel conditions for Medina's fault-tolerant edge-network algorithms.[19][20][100]
Proposed first test: Inject independent link outages and node faults into a small sensor-network simulation and compare recovery delay with static redundancy.
Rank 9/12; fit 8/10 (2 topic overlap + 3 complementarity + 3 feasible first test). Preserved original co-membership proposal in o08. An added candidate, Leonid Yavits (10/10), ranks above this original because its stated pair-specific roles and first test score higher; this original is limited as follows: Wireless coding and hardware faults need a shared workload; neither source implies a ready integrated implementation. No automatic score boost for original membership. Equal scores use existing-first, then stable researcher ID.
Analyst proposal hypothesis, not an established collaboration, commitment, evidence-confidence rating or assessment of researcher quality; confirm participation and access before work.
Connection 10
Identity check needed: Conditional proposal: confirm the researcher identity and research interests before assessing this match.
Proposal hypothesis: Conditional on confirmation, Shtern's robust optimization could bound resource reserves in Medina's fault-tolerant online systems.[83][84][85][100]
Conditional proposed first test: After identity confirmation, compare fixed redundancy with a robust reserve policy under bounded node failures on missed tasks and extra capacity.
Rank 10/12; fit 8/10 (3 topic overlap + 3 complementarity + 2 feasible first test). New pairing outside the frozen portfolio co-member graph. The chosen uncertainty set must distinguish plausible fault budgets from arbitrary failures. Equal scores use existing-first, then stable researcher ID.
Analyst proposal hypothesis, not an established collaboration, commitment, evidence-confidence rating or assessment of researcher quality; confirm participation and access before work. Conditional: confirm Shimrit Shtern identity mapping and current institutional affiliation before any internal team assignment. The BIU directory and current Technion appointment leave affiliation unresolved. Documented optimization expertise is conditional on that mapping; excluded from confirmed-team claims.
Connection 11
Proposal hypothesis: Medina's distributed and online algorithms can test how Zaidel's multiuser-network performance changes when nodes fail as well as links degrade.[100][102]
Proposed first test: Compare static and adaptive routing in a small multiuser network with independent node failures; measure completed transfers and rerouting cost.
Rank 11/12; fit 8/10 (2 topic overlap + 3 complementarity + 3 feasible first test). New pairing outside the frozen portfolio co-member graph. Routing and physical-layer models must use a consistent notion of capacity. Equal scores use existing-first, then stable researcher ID.
Analyst proposal hypothesis, not an established collaboration, commitment, evidence-confidence rating or assessment of researcher quality; confirm participation and access before work.
Connection 12
Proposal hypothesis: Medina can model faulty computation or network components while Mor Weiss specifies what a secure protocol should reveal during recovery.[100][123]
Proposed first test: Construct a toy recovery transcript and compare leakage and completion under two failover designs in an explicit threat model.
Rank 12/12; fit 7/10 (2 topic overlap + 3 complementarity + 2 feasible first test). New pairing outside the frozen portfolio co-member graph. Fault tolerance alone does not preserve secrecy or active security. Equal scores use existing-first, then stable researcher ID.
Analyst proposal hypothesis, not an established collaboration, commitment, evidence-confidence rating or assessment of researcher quality; confirm participation and access before work.
10 candidates
Connection 1
ETH Zurich and INSAIT
Proposed capability match: Moti Medina's reliable hardware theory, online algorithms can be paired with Bernhard Haeupler's documented interactive coding, distributed algorithms for self-healing edge networks for intermittent sensing. The specific contribution is noise-resilient distributed protocols; this transfer is an analyst hypothesis.[59][100][459]
Simulate message corruption and dropped participants with a fixed communication budget using a 100-node edge-network simulator with independently injected link and memory faults. Compare correct-completion rate and communication overhead with static redundancy and fixed routing with the same resource budget.
Rank 1/10 after semantic revision; analyst score 10 = max(1, 4+3+3): topic overlap 4/4, complementarity 3/3, feasible first test 3/3. A bounded offline comparison is specified; required datasets and domain assumptions must still be checked.
Proposed fit, not an assertion of a new or active relationship. Independent review pending; forecast confidence low. Partner interest, capacity, data access and any required experimental approvals/resources are unverified.
Connection 2
Duke University
Proposed capability match: Moti Medina's reliable hardware theory, online algorithms can be paired with Robert Calderbank's documented space-time coding, quantum error correction for self-healing edge networks for intermittent sensing. The specific contribution is structured redundancy and error correction; this transfer is an analyst hypothesis.[100][444]
Compare structured coding with a repetition baseline under a fixed corruption/noise model using a 100-node edge-network simulator with independently injected link and memory faults. Compare error rate, decoding cost and redundancy budget with static redundancy and fixed routing with the same resource budget.
Rank 2/10 after semantic revision; analyst score 9 = max(1, 3+3+3): topic overlap 3/4, complementarity 3/3, feasible first test 3/3. A bounded offline comparison is specified; required datasets and domain assumptions must still be checked.
Proposed fit, not an assertion of a new or active relationship. Independent review pending; forecast confidence low. Partner interest, capacity, data access and any required experimental approvals/resources are unverified.
Connection 3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Proposed capability match: Moti Medina's reliable hardware theory, online algorithms can be paired with Yael Kalai's documented zero-knowledge proofs, verification of computation for self-healing edge networks for intermittent sensing. The specific contribution is verification with corrupted interaction; this transfer is an analyst hypothesis.[100][465]
Compare verification protocols on a tiny computation while corrupting messages or intermediate answers using a 100-node edge-network simulator with independently injected link and memory faults. Compare soundness, round complexity and tolerance to corrupted interaction with static redundancy and fixed routing with the same resource budget.
Rank 3/10 after semantic revision; analyst score 9 = max(1, 3+3+3): topic overlap 3/4, complementarity 3/3, feasible first test 3/3. A bounded offline comparison is specified; required datasets and domain assumptions must still be checked.
Proposed fit, not an assertion of a new or active relationship. Independent review pending; forecast confidence low. Partner interest, capacity, data access and any required experimental approvals/resources are unverified.
Connection 4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Proposed capability match: Moti Medina's reliable hardware theory, online algorithms can be paired with Muriel Medard's documented network coding, reliable communication for self-healing edge networks for intermittent sensing. The specific contribution is coding and decoding under communication errors; this transfer is an analyst hypothesis.[88][100][474]
Compare a coded protocol or decoder with an uncoded/retransmission baseline under burst errors using a 100-node edge-network simulator with independently injected link and memory faults. Compare block-error rate and redundancy per successful computation with static redundancy and fixed routing with the same resource budget.
Rank 4/10 after semantic revision; analyst score 9 = max(1, 3+3+3): topic overlap 3/4, complementarity 3/3, feasible first test 3/3. A bounded offline comparison is specified; required datasets and domain assumptions must still be checked.
Proposed fit, not an assertion of a new or active relationship. Independent review pending; forecast confidence low. Partner interest, capacity, data access and any required experimental approvals/resources are unverified.
Connection 5
University of California, Berkeley
Proposed capability match: Moti Medina's reliable hardware theory, online algorithms can be paired with Pierluigi Nuzzo's documented cyber-physical systems, design automation for self-healing edge networks for intermittent sensing. The specific contribution is design automation and system requirements; this transfer is an analyst hypothesis.[100][436]
Encode latency, energy and failure constraints in a small system model and inject single-component faults using a 100-node edge-network simulator with independently injected link and memory faults. Compare constraint violations and recovery overhead with static redundancy and fixed routing with the same resource budget.
Rank 5/10 after semantic revision; analyst score 9 = max(1, 3+3+3): topic overlap 3/4, complementarity 3/3, feasible first test 3/3. A bounded offline comparison is specified; required datasets and domain assumptions must still be checked.
Proposed fit, not an assertion of a new or active relationship. Independent review pending; forecast confidence low. Partner interest, capacity, data access and any required experimental approvals/resources are unverified.
Connection 6
Stanford University
Proposed capability match: Moti Medina's reliable hardware theory, online algorithms can be paired with David Tse's documented information-theoretic methods, decentralized systems for self-healing edge networks for intermittent sensing. The specific contribution is first-principles data and decentralized-system modelling; this transfer is an analyst hypothesis.[100][496]
Compare a decentralized or information-constrained algorithm with a centralized reference on a small reproducible workload using a 100-node edge-network simulator with independently injected link and memory faults. Compare communication cost, correctness and sensitivity to missing participants with static redundancy and fixed routing with the same resource budget.
Rank 6/10 after semantic revision; analyst score 9 = max(1, 3+3+3): topic overlap 3/4, complementarity 3/3, feasible first test 3/3. A bounded offline comparison is specified; required datasets and domain assumptions must still be checked.
Proposed fit, not an assertion of a new or active relationship. Independent review pending; forecast confidence low. Partner interest, capacity, data access and any required experimental approvals/resources are unverified. His refreshed lab page describes wireless as a previous application and current work on decentralized systems; no active wireless project is assumed.
Connection 7
Harvard University
Original proposal
Harvard lists Mitzenmacher in algorithms, theory, systems and data science, offering broadly complementary algorithmic and systems depth for a fault-tolerant networking study; the inspected profile does not establish a specific randomized-network-analysis method, and this is only a proposed match.[100][101][478]
Emulate a 100-node edge network with injected link and memory faults and compare recovery latency and packet loss against static redundancy.
Rank 7/10 after semantic revision; analyst score 8 = max(1, 3+2+3): topic overlap 3/4, complementarity 2/3, feasible first test 3/3. A bounded offline comparison is specified; required datasets and domain assumptions must still be checked. The original Harvard directory provides broad theory/systems categories, whereas Haeupler directly documents distributed computation and interactive coding; no specific randomized-network method was established for Mitzenmacher in that source. Original retained exactly at rank 7; preceding alternatives are Bernhard Haeupler (10; 4+3+3), Robert Calderbank (9; 3+3+3), Yael Kalai (9; 3+3+3), Muriel Medard (9; 3+3+3), Pierluigi Nuzzo (9; 3+3+3), David Tse (9; 3+3+3). The preserved scientific explanation above describes the narrower contribution; current ordering follows these displayed component totals, not comparative researcher quality.
Proposed fit, not an assertion of a new or active relationship. Independent review pending; forecast confidence low. Partner interest, capacity, data access and any required experimental approvals/resources are unverified.
Connection 8
Stony Brook University
Proposed capability match: Moti Medina's reliable hardware theory, online algorithms can be paired with Andrea Goldsmith's documented wireless communications, information theory for self-healing edge networks for intermittent sensing. The specific contribution is wireless-system models and information limits; this transfer is an analyst hypothesis.[21][100][103][456]
Compare resource or interference policies against a non-adaptive communication baseline at fixed channel assumptions using a 100-node edge-network simulator with independently injected link and memory faults. Compare throughput, latency, energy and fairness across users with static redundancy and fixed routing with the same resource budget.
Rank 8/10 after semantic revision; analyst score 8 = max(1, 2+3+3): topic overlap 2/4, complementarity 3/3, feasible first test 3/3. A bounded offline comparison is specified; required datasets and domain assumptions must still be checked.
Proposed fit, not an assertion of a new or active relationship. Independent review pending; forecast confidence low. Partner interest, capacity, data access and any required experimental approvals/resources are unverified.
Connection 9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Proposed capability match: Moti Medina's reliable hardware theory, online algorithms can be paired with Gregory Wornell's documented signal processing, statistical inference for self-healing edge networks for intermittent sensing. The specific contribution is joint statistical inference and information constraints; this transfer is an analyst hypothesis.[100][110][503]
Compare full-data inference with task-specific compressed statistics at fixed communication or storage budget using a 100-node edge-network simulator with independently injected link and memory faults. Compare estimation error, calibration and bits per valid decision with static redundancy and fixed routing with the same resource budget.
Rank 9/10 after semantic revision; analyst score 8 = max(1, 2+3+3): topic overlap 2/4, complementarity 3/3, feasible first test 3/3. A bounded offline comparison is specified; required datasets and domain assumptions must still be checked.
Proposed fit, not an assertion of a new or active relationship. Independent review pending; forecast confidence low. Partner interest, capacity, data access and any required experimental approvals/resources are unverified.
Connection 10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Proposed capability match for Moti Medina with Srini Devadas: Secure architecture adds a conditional privacy requirement to reliable computation, while confidentiality and correctness under faults require separate threat models and controls.[100][448]
Specify confidential sensor inputs processed by a fixed authenticated computation, a passive observer of memory-access traces, and independent link/memory faults. Compare protected and unprotected implementations of the same computation under identical seeded faults by correctness, runtime and explicitly defined access-pattern distinguishability. Report leakage proxy and fault tolerance separately; do not infer one from the other.
Rank 10/10 after semantic revision; analyst score 6 = max(1, 2+2+2): topic overlap 2/4, complementarity 2/3, feasible first test 2/3. Secure architecture adds a conditional privacy requirement to reliable computation, while confidentiality and correctness under faults require separate threat models and controls. A bounded offline comparison is specified; required datasets and domain assumptions must still be checked.
Proposed fit, not an assertion of a new or active relationship. Independent review pending; forecast confidence low. Partner interest, capacity, data access and any required experimental approvals/resources are unverified. Post-review scope: Secure architecture adds a conditional privacy requirement to reliable computation, while confidentiality and correctness under faults require separate threat models and controls. This revised proposal awaits independent targeted re-review; simulated outcomes would establish model behavior only, not biological, clinical or deployed benefit.
Moti Medina works on reliable hardware and online, approximation, distributed and local algorithms for networks. [100]
Moderate confidenceReview: reviewedA publisher-indexed recent output was not inspected in this WIP pass.
A self-healing edge-network stack combining Medina's hardware and online-algorithm expertise with broader algorithms, theory and systems expertise is a future research hypothesis. [100][101]
Low confidenceReview: reviewedFault models, platform feasibility, exact complementary method and partner interest are unknown.