Ran Giladi is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication Systems Engineering of Ben-Gurion University, Israel. Founder of the Department of Communication Systems Engineering at Ben-Gurion University, Ran presided as its department head from 1995 until 2000. Ran co-founded several networking companies, and served in the Israeli telecom industry in many high level R&D and managerial positions. He also founded the Israeli Consortia for research on network management systems (NMS), serving as Chairman of the Consortia Board of Directors. Currently Ran acts as a Venture Partner at Tamir-Fishman Ventures, and is on the board of directors of several networking companies, among them EZchip technologies ltd., producer of state-of-the-art, ultra high speed network processors.
Ran's research includes computer and communications systems performance, data networks, and management systems. He earned a B.A. in Physics and M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Computers and Information Systems from Tel-Aviv University.