Eilon Solan

Eilon Solan (Hebrew: אילון סולן; born 1969) is an Israeli mathematician and professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences of Tel Aviv University. His research focuses on game theory, stochastic processes, and measure theory.

Eilon Solan
אילון סולן
Born	1969
Alma mater	Tel Aviv University Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Scientific career
Fields	Game theory
Institutions	Tel Aviv University
Thesis	Discounted Stochastic Games (1998)
Doctoral advisor	Abraham Neyman

Biography

Solan obtained a B.Sc. in mathematics and computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1989, and an M.Sc. in mathematics from Tel Aviv University in 1993.^[1] He completed his doctorate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1998 under the supervision of Abraham Neyman, with a dissertation on stochastic games.^[2]

Scientific career

Solan was one of the inventors of CAPTCHA in 1997, along with Eran Reshef and Gili Raanan.^[3]

Solan has 12 research papers joint with his son, Omri Nisan Solan. Some of these were published before Omri finished undergraduate studies.