Avi Wigderson: Israeli mathematician and computer scientist
Avi Wigderson (Hebrew: אבי ויגדרזון; born 9 September 1956) is an Israeli 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. He won the Abel Prize in 2021 for his work.
Avi Wigderson | |
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| Born | 9 September 1956 Israel |
| 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 |
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