Mark Braverman | |
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Born | 1984 |
Nationality | Israeli |
Alma mater | University of Toronto |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer science |
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Thesis | Computability and Complexity of Julia Sets[1] (2008) |
Doctoral advisor | Stephen Cook |
Website | www |
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.[2][3] In 2019, he was awarded the Alan T. Waterman Award.[4] In 2022, he won the IMU Abacus Medal.[5]
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.[6] In 2014, he was an Invited Speaker with talk Interactive information and coding theory at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul.[7]
Braverman is the son of mathematician Elena Braverman[8] and, through her, the grandson of his co-author, mathematical statistician Yan Petrovich Lumel'skii .[9]