Ran Raz (Hebrew: רָן רָז) is a computer scientist who works in the area of computational complexity theory. He was a professor in the faculty of mathematics and computer science at the Weizmann Institute before becoming a professor of computer science at Princeton University.[1]
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| Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Awards | Erdős Prize |
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| Thesis | Communication Complexity and Circuit Lower Bounds (1992) |
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| Website | www |
Raz received his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1992 under Avi Wigderson and Michael Ben-Or.[2]
Raz is well known for his work on interactive proof systems. His two most-cited papers are Raz (1998) on multi-prover interactive proofs and Raz & Safra (1997) on probabilistically checkable proofs.[3]
Raz received the Erdős Prize in 2002. In 2004, he received the best paper award in ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing for Raz (2004),[4] and the best paper award in IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity for Raz & Shpilka (2004).[5] In 2008, the work Moshkovitz & Raz (2008) received the best paper award in IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS).[6]
Selected publications
edit- Raz, Ran; Safra, Shmuel (1997), "A sub-constant error-probability low-degree test, and a sub-constant error-probability PCP characterization of NP", Proc. STOC 1997, pp. 475–484, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.34.6957, doi:10.1145/258533.258641, ISBN 978-0-89791-888-6, S2CID 15457604.
- Raz, Ran (1998), "A parallel repetition theorem", SIAM Journal on Computing, 27 (3): 763–803, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.35.6859, doi:10.1137/S0097539795280895.
- Raz, Ran (2004), "Multi-linear formulas for permanent and determinant are of super-polynomial size", Proc. STOC 2004, pp. 633–641, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.2.9694, doi:10.1145/1007352.1007353, ISBN 978-1-58113-852-8, S2CID 1297877.
- Raz, Ran; Shpilka, Amir (2004), "Deterministic polynomial identity testing in non commutative models", Proc. CCC 2004, pp. 215–222, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.104.293, doi:10.1109/CCC.2004.1313845, ISBN 978-0-7695-2120-6.
- Moshkovitz, Dana; Raz, Ran (2008), "Two query PCP with sub-constant error", Proc. FOCS 2008, pp. 314–323, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.140.2111, doi:10.1109/FOCS.2008.60, ISBN 978-0-7695-3436-7.
References
edit- ^ "Raz, Weinberg Deepen Faculty's Leadership in Critical Areas | Computer Science Department at Princeton University". www.cs.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2017-02-13.
- ^ Ran Raz at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Citations counts for Raz (1998) as of 21 Feb 2009: Google Scholar: 313, ISI Web of Knowledge: 120, ACM Digital Library: 57 + 17, MathSciNet: 53. Citations counts for Raz & Safra (1997) as of 21 Feb 2009: Google Scholar: 314, ACM Digital Library: 71, MathSciNet: 59.
- ^ Proc. STOC 2004: "STOC 2004 Conference Awards", page x. [1]. One of two award papers.
- ^ Proc. CCC 2004: "Awards", page x. [2].
- ^ Proc. FOCS 2008: "Foreword", page xii. [3].