Avrim Blum

Avrim Blum
Born (1966-05-27) May 27, 1966
Berkeley, California, United States
Residence Chicago, Illinois
Nationality American
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known for Co-training
Scientific career
Fields Computer Science
Institutions Carnegie Mellon University
Doctoral advisor Ron Rivest
Doctoral students Santosh Vempala
John Langford
Katrina Ligett

Avrim Blum (born 27 May 1966) is a computer scientist. In 2007, he was made a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery[1] "for contributions to learning theory and algorithms." Blum attended MIT, where he received his Ph.D. in 1991 under professor Ron Rivest.[2] He was a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University from 1991 to 2017.[3]

In 2017, he joined Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago as professor and Chief Academic Officer.

His main work has been in the area of theoretical computer science, with particular activity in the fields of machine learning, computational learning theory, algorithmic game theory, and algorithms.

Avrim is the son of two other well-known computer scientists, Manuel Blum, 1995 Turing Award winner, and Lenore Blum.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ ACM: Fellows Award / Avrim Blum
  2. ↑ Avrim Blum at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  3. ↑ Avrim Blum's home page
  4. ↑ "Dad, mom join son to form a potent computer science team at CMU"
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