Nati Linial
Nathan (Nati) Linial | |
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נתן (נתי) ליניאל | |
| Born | 1953 Haifa, Israel |
| Alma mater | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Known for | Constant depth circuits, Fourier transform, learnability |
| Awards | Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2012), FOCS Test of Time Award (2019) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics, Computer Science |
| Institutions | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Doctoral advisor | Micha Perles |
Nathan (Nati) Linial (Hebrew: נתן (נתי) ליניאל; born 1953 in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist, a professor in the Rachel and Selim Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and an ISI highly cited researcher.
Linial did his undergraduate studies at the Technion, and received his PhD in 1978 from the Hebrew University under the supervision of Micha Perles. He was a postgraduate researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles before returning to the Hebrew University as a faculty member.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. In 2019 he won the FOCS Test of Time Award for the paper "Constant Depth Circuits, Fourier Transform, and Learnability", co-authored with Yishay Mansour and Noam Nisan.