Avi Wigderson
Avi Wigderson | |
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אבי ויגדרזון | |
Wigderson in 2012 | |
| Born | 9 September 1956 Haifa, Israel |
| Education | Israel Institute of Technology (BS) Princeton University (MS, PhD) |
| Known for | Zig-zag product, Computational complexity |
| 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 |
Avi Wigderson (Hebrew: אבי ויגדרזון; born 9 September 1956) 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. His research interests include complexity theory, parallel algorithms, graph theory, cryptography, and distributed computing. Wigderson received the Abel Prize in 2021 for his work in theoretical computer science. He also received the 2023 Turing Award for his contributions to the understanding of randomness in the theory of computation.