Uriel Feige (Hebrew: אוריאל פייגה) is an Israeli computer scientist who was a doctoral student of Adi Shamir.
Uriel Feige | |
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| Alma mater | Ph.D. Weizmann Institute of Science, 1992[1] |
| Known for | Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Weizmann Institute |
| Doctoral advisor | Adi Shamir |
Life
editUriel 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
editHe is notable for co-inventing the Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme along with Amos Fiat and Adi Shamir.
Honors and awards
editHe won the Gödel Prize in 2001 "for the PCP theorem and its applications to hardness of approximation".