Avi Wigderson(1956)

Computer Science

Avi Wigderson is a recipient of the Turing Award (2023) from Israel. They have received 4 major awards in total. Their primary field is Computer Science. They were educated at Princeton University and Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. They have been affiliated with Princeton University.

4
Major Awards
427
Publications
28,479
Citations
75
h-index
253
i10-index
66.7
Avg Citations/Paper

Career History

Faculty

Institute for Advanced Study

Princeton, US

1999 — Present

Education

Technion Israel Institute of Technology

B.Sc Summa cum laude

Computer Science

1980

Education

Princeton University
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Hebrew Reali School

Doctoral Advisors

Dorit AharonovRan RazRafi HeimanPrabhakar Lakshman RagdeMoti ReifRoy ArmoniEli Ben-SassonYuri RabinovichRonen ShaltielAmir ShpilkaRichard J. LiptonAviad CohenJoseph GilMauricio KarchmerIlan Newman

Academy Memberships

National Academy of Sciences (US)American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Top Publications

ACM Turing Award Lecture: Avi Wigderson
Proceedings of the 56th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing20240 citations

Data Sources

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