Avi Wigderson
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Avi Wigderson (Hebrew: אבי ויגדרזון; born 9 September 1956[1]) is an Israeli computer scientist and mathematician. He is the Herbert H. Maass Professor in the school of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America.[2] His research interests include complexity theory, parallel algorithms, graph theory, cryptography, distributed computing, and neural networks.[3] Wigderson received the Abel Prize in 2021 for his work in theoretical computer science.[4] He also received the 2023 Turing Award for his contributions to the understanding of randomness in the theory of computation.[5][6]
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אבי ויגדרזון | |
Born | (1956-09-09) 9 September 1956 (age 67) Haifa, Israel |
Education | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Princeton University (Ph.D.) |
Known for | Zig-zag product |
Awards | Nevanlinna Prize (1994) Gödel Prize (2009) Knuth Prize (2019) Abel Prize (2021) Turing Award (2023) |
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 Ran Raz |
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