Avrim Blum
| Avrim Blum | |
|---|---|
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| Born |
May 27, 1966 Berkeley, California, USA |
| Residence | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Ron Rivest |
| Doctoral students |
Prasad Chalasani Santosh Vempala Carl Burch Adam Tauman Kalai John Langford Nikhil Bansal Martin Zinkevich Shuchi Chawla Brendan McMahan Nina Balcan Shobha Venkataraman Mugizi Rwebangira Katrina Ligett Aaron Roth |
| Known for | Co-training |
Avrim Blum (born 27 May 1966) is a prominent 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] Since 1991 he has been a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.[3]
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 famous computer scientists, Manuel Blum and Lenore Blum.[4]