Sivan Sabato is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Before that, she was a post-doctoral fellow at Microsoft Research New England. Sabato received her PhD from the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the recipient of the Alon Scholarship of the Council for Higher Education of Israel for excellent new faculty. She is also a recipient of the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, and an alumna of the Adams Fellowship Program of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.