Raphael "Raphi" Rom is an Israeli computer scientist working at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.^[1]

Rom earned his Ph.D. in 1975 from the University of Utah, under the supervision of Thomas Stockham.^[2] He is known for his contribution to the development of the Catmull–Rom spline,^[3] and for his research on computer networks.

Selected publications

• Catmull, E.; Rom, R. (1974), "A class of local interpolating splines", in Barnhill, R. E.; Riesenfeld, R. F. (eds.), Computer Aided Geometric Design, New York: Academic Press, pp. 317–326.
• Rom, R.; Sidi, M. (1990), Multiple Access Protocols: Performance and Analysis, Springer.^[4][5]
• Orda, A.; Rom, R. (1990), "Shortest-path and minimum-delay algorithms in networks with time-dependent edge-length", Journal of the ACM, 37 (3): 607–625, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.392.7997, doi:10.1145/79147.214078, MR 1072271, S2CID 2910521.
• Orda, A..; Rom, R.; Shimkin, N. (1993), "Competitive routing in multiuser communication networks", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 1 (5): 510–521, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.380.8744, doi:10.1109/90.251910, S2CID 1184436.
• Azar, Yossi; Naor, Joseph; Rom, Raphael (1995), "The competitiveness of on-line assignments", Journal of Algorithms, 18 (2): 221–237, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.41.5057, doi:10.1006/jagm.1995.1008, MR 1317665, S2CID 6718477.
• Cidon, I.; Rom, R.; Shavitt, Y. (1999), "Analysis of multi-path routing", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 7 (6): 885–896, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.144.962, doi:10.1109/90.811453, S2CID 1056820.