Schuster was born in 1958 in the
Israeli
kibbutz Givat Brenner to Tzipora and Yochanan Schuster. His family is of
Ashkenazi-Jewish origin. Schuster began his academic studies at the Hebrew University in 1981, and graduated in 1984, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science. In 1986, he graduated with a master's degree in computer science. After receiving his degree, Schuster worked as a teacher at Ort College in
Givat Ram,
Jerusalem. In 1991, Schuster received a doctorate from the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem in computer science. His
PhD topic dealt with the dynamic configuration of communication networks for parallel computation, under the guidance of
Eli Shamir. He then started working at
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. In 2000, he became an associate professor and in 2007, he became a professor. In 2015 he was named a
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for his contributions to cloud computing. In 2016, Schuster co-founded a startup called Cy-oT (Cyber of Things), along with Natan Bandler and Daniel Moscovici. Schuster served as the
CTO until the company was sold to
Verint in 2019. ==References==