Education
Five degrees across computer science, security, and business — the academic backbone behind Yotam's research focus on distributed algorithms.
Ph.D. Focus
Yotam's doctoral research at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev centered on developing distributed algorithms. That academic grounding now underpins his technical work in AI architecture, AI security, and post-quantum cryptography.
Published Research
Three peer-reviewed papers grew out of the doctoral work, spanning self-stabilizing robot swarms and distributed coordination — the same territory that continues to shape his approach to complex systems today.
Proposes a framework for robot swarms to keep collaborating safely even when some robots behave maliciously (Byzantine faults) — showing that periodically "forgiving and forgetting" suspected robots lets the swarm complete tasks like patrolling or cleaning without permanent disruption.
Read on Wiley Online Library →Introduces a general framework where non-Byzantine robots follow "location functions" to keep a swarm self-stabilizing and Byzantine-resilient, with efficient implementations for polynomial-based and shape-based tasks.
Read on ScienceDirect →Demonstrates and proves that coordination of actions in a distributed swarm can be enhanced by using quantum entanglement — extending his distributed algorithms research into quantum-based coordination.
Read on IEEE Xplore →Details on this page are drawn from Yotam's public LinkedIn profile and his published research.