What is Avi Wigderson?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Avi Wigderson | image = Avi Wigderson (2005) (cropped).jpg | image_size = | alt = Image of AW | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1956|09|09|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Haifa]], [[Israel]] | death_date = | death_place = | fields = [[Theoretical computer science]] | workplaces = [[Institute for Advanced Study]] | alma_mater = [[Technion]]<br>[[Princeton University]] (Ph.D.) | doctoral_advisor = [[Richard Lipton]] | doctoral_students = [[Dorit Aharonov]]<br>[[Ran Raz]] | thesis_title = Studies in Computational Complexity | thesis_year = 1983 | thesis_url = https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/151255 | awards = [[Nevanlinna Prize]] (1994)<br>[[Gödel Prize]] (2009)<br>[[Knuth Prize]] (2019)<br>[[Abel Prize]] (2021) }} '''Avi Wigderson''' ({{lang-he|אבי ויגדרזון}}; born 9 September 1956<ref>{{Citation|last=Wigderson|first=Avi|date=22 May 2014|title=Resumé|url=http://www.math.ias.edu/~avi/CV_shortbio/Drupal_CV/avicv_5_22.pdf|access-date=7 March 2016}}</ref>) is an [[Israelis|Israeli]]-[[Americans|American]] [[mathematician]] and [[computer scientist]]. He is the Herbert H. Maass Professor in the school of mathematics at the [[Institute for Advanced Study]] in [[Princeton, New Jersey|Princeton]], [[New Jersey]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Faculty {{!}} IAS School of Mathematics|url=https://www.math.ias.edu/people/faculty|access-date=19 June 2020|website=www.math.ias.edu|date=4 August 2008 }}</ref> He won the [[Abel Prize]] in 2021 and [[Turing Award]] in 2023 for his work. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Wigderson, Avi}} [[Category:1956 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Abel Prize winners]] [[Category:American computer scientists]] [[Category:Israeli mathematicians]] [[Category:Academics from New Jersey]] [[Category:People from Haifa]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States]] [[Category:American mathematicians]