Ilya Levin received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering in 1987 from the Institute of Computer Technologies, Latvian Academy of Science. From 1987 he was the Head of the Computer Science Department in the Leningrad Institute of New Technologies (in the former USSR).
From 1993 to 1997, Ilya Levin was the Head of the Computer Systems Department in Holon Institute of Technology, Israel. In 1997, he was a Research Fellow in the Computer Science Department of the University of Massachusetts. For four years between 2003-2006, Ilya Levin was an Associate Professor of the School of Engineering at the Bar Ilan University. In 2014, 2018 and 2022 he was a visiting professor at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy, and Aix-Marseille Université, France.
Presently, Prof. Ilya Levin is a Full Professor in the School of Education of Tel Aviv University. His recent research interests include Computer Design, Cultural Studies of Information Society, Philosophy of Technology, Artifitial Intelligence in Education. Prof. Levin is the author of around 200 research papers, both in Computer Engineering and in Humanities.