Avi Wigderson
Israeli mathematician and computer scientist
Avi Wigderson (Hebrew: אבי ויגדרזון; born 9 September 1956[1]) is an Israeli-American mathematician and computer scientist. He is the Herbert H. Maass Professor in the school of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.[2] He won the Abel Prize in 2021 and Turing Award in 2023 for his work.
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| Born | 9 September 1956 |
| Alma mater | Technion Princeton University (Ph.D.) |
| Awards | Nevanlinna Prize (1994) Gödel Prize (2009) Knuth Prize (2019) Abel Prize (2021) |
| 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 |
References
change- ↑ Wigderson, Avi (22 May 2014), Resumé (PDF), retrieved 7 March 2016
- ↑ "Faculty | IAS School of Mathematics". www.math.ias.edu. 4 August 2008. Retrieved 19 June 2020.