Avi Wigderson
Avi Wigderson | |
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| Born | 9 September 1956 Israel |
| Alma mater | Technion Princeton University |
| Awards | Nevanlinna Prize (1994) Godel Prize (2009) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical computer science |
| Institutions | Institute for Advanced Study |
| Thesis | Studies in Computational Complexity (1983) |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Lipton |
| Doctoral students | Dorit Aharonov Roy Armoni Eli Ben-Sasson Aviad Cohen Joseph Gil Rafi Heiman Mauricio Karchmer Ilan Newman Yuri Rabinovich Prabhakar Ragde Ran Raz Moti Reif Ronen Shaltiel Amir Shpilka |
Avi Wigderson (Template:Lang-he; born 9 September 1956[1]) is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist. He is professor of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His research interests include complexity theory, parallel algorithms, graph theory, cryptography, distributed computing, and neural networks.[2]
Biography
Wigderson did his undergraduate studies at the Technion in Haifa, Israel, graduating in 1980, and went on to graduate study at Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. in 1983 for work in computational complexity under the supervision of Richard Lipton.[3] After short-term positions at the University of California, Berkeley, the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, he joined the faculty of Hebrew University in 1986. In 1999 he also took a position at the Institute for Advanced Study, and in 2003 he gave up his Hebrew University position to take up full-time residence at the IAS.[2]
Awards and honors
Wigderson received the Nevanlinna Prize in 1994 for his work on computational complexity.[4] Along with Omer Reingold and Salil Vadhan he won the 2009 Gödel Prize for work on the zig-zag product of graphs, a method of combining smaller graphs to produce larger ones used in the construction of expander graphs.[5] He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2013.[6]
References
- ^ Wigderson, Avi (May 22, 2014), Resumé (PDF), retrieved March 7, 2016
- ^ a b Short biography Archived June 12, 2010, at the Wayback Machine from Wigderson's web site, retrieved 2010-05-03.
- ^ Avi Wigderson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- ^ "HU Professor Wins 'Nobel Prize' Of Computers", Jerusalem Post, Aug 3, 1994
- ^ Avi Wigderson and Colleagues Honored with 2009 Gödel Prize, Institute for Advanced Study, retrieved 2010-05-03
- ^ National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected, National Academy of Sciences, April 30, 2013.
External links
- Avi Wigderson's home page
- Avi Wigderson at DBLP Bibliography Server
- Israeli computer scientists
- Israeli mathematicians
- Theoretical computer scientists
- 1956 births
- Living people
- Gödel Prize laureates
- Nevanlinna Prize laureates
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem faculty
- Institute for Advanced Study faculty
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- Princeton University alumni
- Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni
- 20th-century engineers
- 21st-century engineers
- 20th-century scientists
- 21st-century scientists
- 20th-century American scientists
- 21st-century American scientists