Omer Reingold Explained

Omer Reingold
Nationality:Israeli
Fields:Computer science
Workplaces:Stanford University
Alma Mater:Weizmann Institute of Science
Doctoral Advisor:Moni Naor
Known For:Zig-zag product

Omer Reingold (Hebrew: עומר ריינגולד) is an Israeli computer scientist. He is the Rajeev Motwani professor of Computer Science in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University and the director of the Simons Collaboration on the Theory of Algorithmic Fairness. He received a PhD in computer science at Weizmann in 1998 under Moni Naor.[1] He received the 2005 Grace Murray Hopper Award for his work in finding a deterministic logarithmic-space algorithm for st-connectivity in undirected graphs.[2] He, along with Avi Wigderson and Salil Vadhan, won the Gödel Prize (2009) for their work on the zig-zag product. He became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2014 "For contributions to the study of pseudorandomness, derandomization, and cryptography."[3]

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  1. Web site: Reingold . Omer . CV-1 . Bio . 29 November 2022 . January 2022.
  2. REINGOLD . OMER . 2008 . Undirected connectivity in log-space . Journal of the ACM . ACM . 55 . 4 . 1–24. 10.1145/1391289.1391291 . 207168478 .
  3. http://awards.acm.org/press_releases/fellows-2014b.pdf ACM Names Fellows for Innovations in Computing