Assaf Naor | |
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אסף נאור | |
| Born | (1975-05-07)May 7, 1975 (age 49) |
| Nationality | American,Czech,Israeli |
| Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Awards | EMS Prize (2008) Salem Prize (2008) Bôcher Memorial Prize (2011) Nemmers Prize (2018) Ostrowski Prize (2019) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics,computer science |
| Institutions | Princeton University,NYU,Microsoft Research |
| Doctoral advisor | Joram Lindenstrauss |
Assaf Naor (Hebrew:אסף נאור; born May 7, 1975) is anIsraeli American andCzechmathematician,computer scientist, and a professor of mathematics atPrinceton University.[1][2]
Naor earned a baccalaureate fromHebrew University of Jerusalem in 1996 and a doctorate from the same university in 2002, under the supervision ofJoram Lindenstrauss.[3][4] He worked atMicrosoft Research from 2002 until 2007, with an affiliated faculty position at theUniversity of Washington, and joined the NYU faculty in 2006.[3]
Naor's research concernsmetric spaces, their properties, and related algorithms, including improved upper bounds on theGrothendieck inequality, applications of this inequality, and research onmetrical task systems.
Naor won the Bergmann award of theUnited States – Israel Binational Science Foundation in 2007,[5] and the Pazy award of the BSF in 2011.[6] In 2012 he was one of four faculty winners of theLeonard Blavatnik Award of theNew York Academy of Sciences, given to young scientists and engineers in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.[7]
He won theSalem Prize in 2008 for "contributions to the structural theory of metric spaces and its applications to computer science",[8] and in the same year was given aEuropean Mathematical Society Prize[3] (one of ten awarded to outstanding younger mathematicians). He won theBôcher Memorial Prize in 2011 "for introducing new invariants of metric spaces and for applying his new understanding of the distortion between various metric structures to theoretical computer science".[9] In 2012 he became a fellow of theAmerican Mathematical Society.[10]He received theNemmers Prize in Mathematics in 2018 and in 2019 theOstrowski Prize.[11]
He gave aninvited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010, on the topic of "Functional Analysis and Applications".[12]
