He became an assistant professor in the
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of
New York University from 1975 until 1980, when he moved to
Bell Laboratories. From 1983 to 1992 he worked for
IBM Research in Israel, and from 1992 to 2000 he was a professor of mathematics and computer science at
Bar-Ilan University. He moved to the University of Haifa in 2000, where he founded the Caesarea Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer Science.[3][2]
In 1989, Golumbic founded the Bar-Ilan Symposium in Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, a leading artificial intelligence conference in Israel.[5] In 1990 Golumbic became the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, published by
Springer.[6]
At the 2019 Bar-Ilan Symposium in Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, Golumbic was given the Lifetime Achievement and Service Award of the Israeli Association for Artificial Intelligence.[5]
Selected publications
Golumbic is the author of books including:
Algorithmic Graph Theory and Perfect Graphs (Academic Press, 1980; 2nd ed., Elsevier, 2004)[8]
Tolerance Graphs (with
Ann Trenk, Cambridge University Press, 2004)[9]
Fighting Terror Online: The Convergence of Security, Technology, and the Law (Springer, 2008)[10]
Other highly-cited publications of Golumbic include: