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Avishay Tal
Associate Professor
Research Support
Rachel Zhang
zhany21@berkeley.edu
Biography
Avishay Tal is a member of Berkeley's Theory Group. He received his Ph.D. in 2015 from the Weizmann Institute of Science under the guidance of Ran Raz. Prior to that, he completed a Master's degree at the Technion under the guidance of Amir Shpilka. He has held postdoctoral appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study (hosted by Avi Wigderson), Simons Institute (as part of the Lower Bounds in Computational Complexity program), and Stanford University (hosted by Omer Reingold).
His research interests are in computational complexity, analysis of boolean functions, circuit complexity, formula complexity, query complexity, pseudorandomness, learning, combinatorics, quantum computing, and the connections between algorithms and lower bounds.
Education
2015, PhD, Computer Science, Weizmann Institute of Science
2012, MS, Computer Science, The Technion, Haifa, Israel
2007, BA, Mathematics, The Technion, Haifa, Israel
2005, BS, Software Engineering, The Technion, Haifa, Israel
Research Areas
Research Centers
Teaching Schedule
CS 172. Computability and Complexity, TuTh 12:30-13:59, Social Sciences Building 110
CS 298-2. Theory Seminar, We 12:00-13:29, Soda 438