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a Ph.D. in computer science, and the author of chess engines [[Genesis IL|Genesis]] and [[Falcon]] (which participated in several [[World Computer Chess Championship|World Computer Chess Championships]]). His main research areas are [[Genetic Programming#EvolutionaryComputation|evolutionary computation]], [[Learning|machine learning]], and computer games. Omid's Ph.D. thesis focused on applying [[Genetic Programming|genetic algorithms]] for automatically [[Learning|learning]] the parameters of a chess program's [[Evaluation|evaluation function]] and [[Selectivity|selective]] [[Search|search]]. His paper titled ''Genetic Algorithms for Mentor-Assisted Evaluation Function Optimization was'' the winner of ''GECCO 2008'' Best Paper Award in Real-World Applications track. Several of his earlier computer chess papers are on [[Pruning|selective search]], and especially variations on [[Null Move Pruning|null-move pruning]]. In 2016, he was awarded best paper in ''ICAAN 2016'' for ''DeepChess: End-to-End Deep Neural Network for Automatic Learning in Chess'' <ref>[http://icann2016.org/index.php/conference-programme/recipients-of-the-best-paper-awards/ ICANN 2016 | Recipients of the best paper awards]</ref> <ref>[https://www.facebook.com/computer.science.biu/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE&fref=nf Facebook - Bar-Ilan University], September 14, 2016</ref> <ref>[[Omid Eli David|Omid E. David]], [[Nathan S. Netanyahu]], [[Lior Wolf]] ('''2016'''). ''[http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-44781-0_11 DeepChess: End-to-End Deep Neural Network for Automatic Learning in Chess]''. [http://icann2016.org/ ICAAN 2016], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecture_Notes_in_Computer_Science Lecture Notes in Computer Science], Vol. 9887, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer], [http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~wolf/papers/deepchess.pdf pdf preprint] » [[DeepChess]] </ref>.