Mark Braverman (born 1984) is an Israeli mathematician and theoretical computer scientist. He was awarded an EMS Prize in 2016 as well as Presburger Award in the same year. In 2019, he was awarded the

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. In 2022 he won the

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. He earned his doctorate from the University of Toronto in 2008, under the supervision of Stephen Cook. After this, he did post-doctoral research at

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and then joined the faculty at University of Toronto. In 2011, he joined the Princeton University department of computer science. In 2014 he was an Invited Speaker with talk ''Interactive information and coding theory'' at the

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in Seoul. Braverman is the son of mathematician

Elena Braverman Elena Yanovna Braverman (née Lumelskaya, russian: Елена Яновна Браверман) is a Russian, Israeli, and Canadian mathematician known for her research in delay differential equations, difference equations, and population dynamics ...

and, through her, the grandson of his co-author, mathematical statistician .

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* 1984 births Living people Israeli mathematicians University of Toronto alumni Princeton University faculty Nevanlinna Prize laureates {{Israel-scientist-stub