Avi Wigderson
Herbert H. Maass
Professor
School of Mathematics

Avi Wigderson is a widely recognized authority in the diverse and evolving field of theoretical computer science. His main research area is computational complexity theory. Other research interests include parallel computation, combinatorics and graph theory, combinatorial optimization algorithms, randomness and cryptography, and distributed and neural networks.

Ph.D., Princeton University, 1983; Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1983-84; Visiting Scientist, IBM Research, 1984-85; Fellow, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, 1985-86; Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Senior Lecturer, 1986-87, Associate Professor, 1987-92; Visiting Associate Professor, Princeton University, 1990-92; Chairman, Computer Science Institute, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1993-95, Professor, 1991-2003; Rolf Nevanlinna Prize, 1994; Visiting Professor, Princeton University, 1995-96; Institute for Advanced Study, Member, 1995-96, 1997-99, Professor, 1999-.