# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/avi-wigderson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:57:48.239Z

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name: "Avi Wigderson"
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description: "Avi Wigderson 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."
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birthDate: "1956-09-09"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump