Mark Braverman | |
Nationality: | Israeli |
Fields: | Computer science |
Alma Mater: | University of Toronto |
Thesis Title: | Computability and Complexity of Julia Sets |
Thesis Year: | 2008 |
Doctoral Advisor: | Stephen Cook |
Mark Braverman (born 1984) is an Israeli mathematician and theoretical computer scientist.He was awarded an EMS Prize in 2016 as well as Presburger Award in the same year.[1] [2] In 2019, he was awarded the Alan T. Waterman Award.[3] In 2022, he won the IMU Abacus Medal.[4]
He earned his doctorate from the University of Toronto in 2008, under the supervision of Stephen Cook.After this, he did post-doctoral research at Microsoft Research and then joined the faculty at University of Toronto.In 2011, he joined the Princeton University department of computer science.[5] In 2014, he was an Invited Speaker with talk Interactive information and coding theory at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul.[6]
Braverman is the son of mathematician Elena Braverman[7] and, through her, the grandson of his co-author, mathematical statistician .