1. Avi Wigderson is an Israeli computer scientist and mathematician.
11 Facts About Avi Wigderson
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Avi Wigderson 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.
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Avi Wigderson received the 2023 Turing Award for his contributions to the understanding of randomness in the theory of computation.
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Avi Wigderson was born in Haifa, Israel, to Holocaust survivors.
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Avi Wigderson is a graduate of the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa.
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Avi Wigderson began his undergraduate studies at the Technion in 1977 in Haifa, graduating in 1980.
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Avi Wigderson went on to graduate study at Princeton University, where he received his Ph.
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Avi Wigderson is credited with significantly expanding the field of computational complexity.
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Avi Wigderson received tenure in 1987 and became a full professor in 1991.
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Avi Wigderson investigated computational questions and specifically the role of randomness in the field.
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Avi Wigderson developed the Zig Zag product together with Omer Reingold and Salil Vadhan, the Zig Zag product links complexity theory, graph theory and group theory.