Ilan Cohen is a PhD student at the Blavatnik School of computer science at Tel Aviv University, under the supervision of Yossi Azar. He holds an MS in computer science from Tel Aviv University and a BS cum laude in computer science from the Technion Institute in Haifa. His research involves online and approximation algorithms with game-theoretic aspects. During the past three years, he has been a teaching assistant in the Algorithms course. Prior to his doctoral program, he worked as an algorithms developer and a programmer at IDF in the intelligence corps.