Avrim Blum
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| Avrim Blum | |
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| Born | May 27, 1966 Berkeley,CA, USA |
| Residence | Pittsburgh, PA |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Ron Rivest |
| Doctoral students | Prasad Chalasani Santosh Vempala Carl Burch Adam Kalai John Langford Nikhil Bansal Martin Zinkevich Shuchi Chawla Brendan McMahan Nina Balcan, Shobha Venkataraman Mugizi Rwebangira Katrina Ligett Aaron Roth |
| Known for | Co-training |
Avrim Blum (born 27 May 1966 in Berkeley,CA, USA) is a prominent computer scientist who in 2007 was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery[1] "for contributions to learning theory and algorithms."
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[edit] Biography
Blum attended MIT, where he received his Ph.D. in 1991 under professor Ron Rivest.[2]
Since 1991 he has been a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.[3]
Avrim is the son of two other famous computer scientists, Manuel Blum and Lenore Blum.[4] Avrim is the father of Alex Blum and Aaron Blum.
[edit] Work
His main work has been in the area of theoretical computer science, with particular activity in the fields of machine learning, computational learning theory, algorithmic game theory, and algorithms.
