Professor Uzi Vishkin was named a 2024 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), joining the ranks of some of the United States’ most prestigious and creative academic inventors. Vishkin’s research in parallel computing and parallel computer architecture is internationally recognized. Vishkin also received the 2025 Association for Computing Machinery Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA) Parallel Computing Award. Presented annually, the award recognizes individuals for a singular breakthrough or a career of influential contributions to the SPAA community. 

Vishkin has been a professor of electrical and computer engineering and a permanent member of the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) since 1988. He was a computer science professor at Tel Aviv University from 1984 to 1997, where he was chair during 1987-1988 and led the establishment of the first-of-its-kind double-major program in computer science and any other major, held a research appointment at the Courant Institute, NYU from 1982 to 1988 after a postdoc at IBM TJ Watson Research Center.

He is an ACM Fellow, was an ISI-Thompson Highly Cited Researcher, Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and winner of the 2025 ACM Parallel Computing Award.