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Avi Wigderson
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Partial Derivatives in Arithmetic Complexity and Beyond
- Mathematics and Computation
- Computational Complexity and Property Testing
- Computational complexity theory
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Israel
Discography
- Kompozitsia I2009
- Kompozitsia II2010
- Kompozitsia III2010
- Kompozitsia IV2010
- Kompozitsia V2010
- Tramontana2011
- Kompozitsia VI2011
- Kompozitsia VII2011
- Kompozitsia VIII2011
- Kompozitsia IX2012
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Integrated analysis of multimodal single-cell data
· 2021 · cited 15,088x
- Recommendations for Cardiac Chamber Quantification by Echocardiography in Adults: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging
· 2015 · cited 11,860x
- Enrichr: a comprehensive gene set enrichment analysis web server 2016 update
· 2016 · cited 10,457x
- Enrichr: interactive and collaborative HTML5 gene list enrichment analysis tool
· 2013 · cited 7,384x
- Recommendations for Cardiac Chamber Quantification by Echocardiography in Adults: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging
· 2015 · cited 6,868x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1956-09-09 ) 9 September 1956 (age 69) , Haifa , Israel
- Education
- Israel Institute of Technology ( BS ), Princeton University ( MS , PhD )
- Known for
- Zig-zag product , Computational complexity
- Awards
- Nevanlinna Prize (1994), Gödel Prize (2009), Knuth Prize (2019), Abel Prize (2021) , Turing Award (2023)
- 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 , Eli Ben-Sasson
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Avi Wigderson (Hebrew: אבי ויגדרזון; born 9 September 1956) 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. His research interests include complexity theory, parallel algorithms, graph theory, cryptography, and distributed computing. Wigderson received the Abel Prize in 2021 for his work in theoretical computer science. He also received the 2023 Turing Award for his contributions to the understanding of randomness in the theory of computation.
Early life and studies
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