# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/avrim-blum
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:53:14.337Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/avrim-blum"
name: "Avrim Blum"
slug: "avrim-blum"
description: "Avrim Louis Blum is a computer scientist. In 2007, he was made a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery \"for contributions to learning theory and algorithms.\" Blum attended MIT, where he received his Ph.D. in 1991 under professor Ron Rivest. He was a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University from 1991 to 2017."
tagline: "American computer scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wikipedia_avrimblum1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1966-05-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.9
  momentum:             1.312427409988386
  historical:           4.635064
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~avrim/"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avrim_Blum"
    title: "Avrim Blum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avrim_Blum"
    title: "Avrim Blum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%85_%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "آوریم بلوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avrim_Blum"
    title: "Avrim Blum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avrim_Blum"
    title: "Avrim Blum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4829472"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump