Omer Barkol

Research Manager
Information Analytics Lab
Haifa

Biography

Omer is a research manager in HP Labs in Israel. The main research agenda of Omer and his team deals with analytics and collaboration in large organizations, with a focus on IT management.
As of 2008, Omer works in HP Labs, working both in the area of imaging and printing, and in the research area of IT information management. Omer has led the project of print inspection which included a major tech transfer of that sub-system to HP Indigo’s ILS project. He is also involved in research and development of image-based automation concentrating on the semantic layer. Today, Omer’s main research focus is on structural-data mining (i.e. graphs), working with various teams in HP software.
Prior to joining HP, Omer has led a software team in Charlotte’s Web Networks, dealing with routing protocols. Omer has a Ph.D and M.Sc in Computer Science from Israel Institute of Technology (Technion). His research areas were in theoretical computer science, coding theory, and cryptography. Omer received his B.Sc in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Technion.

 

Research interests

Analytics and collaboration in large organizations with a focus on IT management

Publications

  • Ron Banner, Omer Barkol, Ruth Bergman, Shahar Golan, Yuval Carmel, Ido Ish-Hurwitz, and Oded Zilinsky, Automatic Policy Rule Extraction for Configuration Management. Policy 2011
  • Omer Barkol, Hadas Kogan, Doron Shaked, Mani Fischer, A robust similarity measure for automatic inspection. ICIP 2010
  • Omer Barkol, Yuval Ishai, Enav Weinreb, On d-Multiplicative Secret Sharing. J. Cryptology (2010)
  • Omer Barkol, Yuval Ishai, Enav Weinreb, Communication in the presence of replication. STOC 2008
  • Omer Barkol, Yuval Ishai, Enav Weinreb, On Locally Decodable Codes, Self-correctable Codes, and t -Private PIR. Algorithmica (2010) and previously in APPROX-RANDOM 2007
  • Omer Barkol, Yuval Ishai, Secure Computation of Constant-Depth Circuits with Applications to Database Search Problems. CRYPTO 2005
  • Omer Barkol, Yuval Rabani, Tighter Lower Bounds for Nearest Neighbor Search and Related Problems in the Cell Probe Model. J. Comput. Syst. Sci. (2002) and previously in STOC 2000