Nadav Ashkenazi (User:NadavAsh) was born in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Nadav studies informatics and computer science at the University of Washington. Nadav now works as an introductory CS teaching assistant at the UW and participates in the Gidget reserch project. His focus of computer science is in the game development field, and he has spent two years studying the subject at DigiPen Institute of Technology. Nadav plays guitar and mostly performs classic rock songs.