Avi Wigderson

Avi Wigderson ( born September 9, 1956) is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist.

Wigderson studied from 1977 to 1980 computer science at the Technion in Haifa, Israel, where he received his Bachelor of Science ( Summa cum laude). Then he attended from 1980 to 1983, the Princeton University in the United States, where he earned his doctorate under Richard J. Lipton and his Ph.D. obtained. In 1994, the Nevanlinna Prize for his work in the field of complexity theory, he was awarded.

Since 1999 he is professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. In 2006 he gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid (P, NP and mathematics: a computational complexity perspective ) and 1990, he was invited speaker at the ICM in Kyoto (information theoretic Reasons for computational difficulty ). In 2008 he received the Levi L. Conant Prize - and 2009 was followed by the Gödel Prize.

Wigderson is married and has three children.