Avi Wigderson

Avi Wigderson
Avi Wigderson
אבי ויגדרזון
	Wigderson in 2012
Born	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

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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