Pinter was born in Haifa, Israel in 1953 to parents of German Jewish descent both refugees from Nazi Germany in the 1930s. After finishing at the top of his class in the Hebrew Reali School class of 1971,[2] he obtained a B.Sc., summa cum laude, in computer science from the Technion in the first class which started the program in 1975. At the Technion he met his wife, Shlomit, also a computer scientist. The two have co-authored several papers in the field during the 1990s.
Before turning his focus to bioinformatics, Pinter most notably co-defined the notion of trapezoid graphs[3] and made significant contributions to the field of Integrated Circuit design.[4] After several years as VP for R&D at Compugen[5] he joined the Technion in 2001 and has been a faculty member there since. During this time he has important contributions to the discrete modeling and analysis of biological networks,[6] providing insights about their functionality in spite of the relatively simple and highly efficient computational techniques. In addition, he contributed to the discovery of Photosynthesic reactions in viruses.[7]
References
^"The Optimization of Compilation", The 81st Column, Nov. 17, 1996. IBM Press (Hebrew)
^Dagan, Ido; Martin Charles Golumbic; Ron Yair Pinter (1988). "Trapezoid graphs and their coloring". Discrete Applied Mathematics. 21. Discrete Applied Mathematics 21.1: 35–46. doi:10.1016/0166-218X(88)90032-7.
