Avrim Blum
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Born | Avrim Louis Blum May 27, 1966 Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Known for | Co-training |
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Fields | Computer Science |
Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago |
Thesis | Algorithms for Approximate Graph Coloring (1991) |
Doctoral advisor | Ron Rivest |
Doctoral students |
Avrim Louis 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, database privacy, and algorithms.
Avrim is the son of two other well-known computer scientists, Manuel Blum, 1995 Turing Award winner, and Lenore Blum.[4]
Bibliography
[edit]- Blum, Avrim, John Hopcroft, and Ravindran Kannan. "Foundations of Data Science," February 27, 2020. https://home.ttic.edu/~avrim/book.pdf.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "2024 ACM Fellows Celebrated for transformative contributions to computing science and technology". awards.acm.org. Retrieved 2025-02-21.
- ^ Avrim Blum at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- ^ "Avrim Blum's old home page". www.cs.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2025-02-21.
- ^ "Dad, mom join son to form a potent computer science team at CMU". www.post-gazette.com. Archived from the original on 2009-03-25. Retrieved 2025-02-21.
External links
[edit]- Videos of Avrim lecturing
- Avrim Blum's homepage at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
- Avrim Blum's homepage at Carnegie Mellon University
- 1966 births
- Living people
- Carnegie Mellon University faculty
- 2007 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
- American people of Venezuelan-Jewish descent
- American theoretical computer scientists
- Jewish American scientists
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
- American scientist stubs
- Computer scientist stubs