Rate My Professor Avi Wigderson

Avi Wigderson is the Herbert H. Maass Professor at the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He received a B.Sc. in computer science summa cum laude from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1980. He earned an M.S.E. in computer science in 1981, an M.A. in computer science in 1982, and a Ph.D. in computer science in 1983 from Princeton University, where his doctoral advisor was Richard Lipton.

Wigderson held positions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1986 to 2003, including tenure in 1987 and promotion to full professor in 1991. He joined the Institute for Advanced Study in 1999 and has served full time there since 2003. His main research area is computational complexity. Wigderson has received the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize in 1994, the Gödel Prize in 2009, the Donald E. Knuth Prize in 2019, the Abel Prize in 2021, and the ACM A.M. Turing Award in 2023. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, and an ACM Fellow.