Uriel Feige

Uriel Feige
Uriel Feige
Alma mater	Ph.D. Weizmann Institute of Science, 1992
Known for	Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme
	Scientific career
Institutions	Weizmann Institute
Doctoral advisor	Adi Shamir

Uriel Feige (Hebrew: אוריאל פייגה) is an Israeli computer scientist who was a doctoral student of Adi Shamir.

Life

Uriel Feige currently holds the post of Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot in Israel.^[2]

Work

He is notable for co-inventing the Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme along with Amos Fiat and Adi Shamir.

Honors and awards

He won the Gödel Prize in 2001 "for the PCP theorem and its applications to hardness of approximation".

References

[1] Uriel Feige at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

[WIRI-2] Uriel Feige's profile at the Weizmann Institute

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