In 2004, Shavit received the
Gödel Prize in theoretical computer science along with Maurice Herlihy,
Michael Saks, and
Fotios Zaharoglou for work on applying tools from
algebraic topology to model shared memory computability. In 2012 he received the
Dijkstra Prize along with Maurice Herlihy,
J. Eliot B. Moss, and
Dan Touitou for the introduction and first implementation of
software transactional memory. In 2013, he became a fellow of the
Association for Computing Machinery. He is also a past program chair of the ACM
Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) and the ACM
Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA). He co-founded a company named Neural Magic that provided high performance inference for ML models along with Alexander Matveev. The company was sold to Red Hat in 2024 ==Personal life==