Avishay Tal

Associate Professor


Contact Information

635 Soda Hall

atal@berkeley.edu

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

Theory (THY)

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