Biography:Luca Trevisan
Luca Trevisan | |
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 Luca Trevisan speaking at Random-Approx 2013 at University of California, Berkeley. | |
| Born | 21 July 1971 |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Alma mater | La Sapienza |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Pierluigi Crescenzi |
Luca Trevisan (born 21 July 1971) is an Italian professor of computer science at Bocconi University in Milan.
His research area is theoretical computer science, focusing on randomness, cryptography, probabilistically checkable proofs, approximation, property testing, spectral graph theory, and sublinear algorithms. He also runs a blog, in theory, about theoretical computer science.
Education and career
Trevisan received his PhD from La Sapienza, Rome, under the supervision of Pierluigi Crescenzi.[1] After postdoctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and DIMACS, he held an assistant professor position at Columbia University before moving to the University of California, Berkeley and then, in 2010, to Stanford. In 2014 he returned to Berkeley, and in 2019 he moved to the Department of Decision Sciences at Bocconi University.[2]
Recognition
Trevisan won the Danny Lewin Best Student Paper Award at the 1997 Symposium on Theory of Computing,[3] the Oberwolfach Prize in 2000, and a Sloan Fellowship also in 2000. He was an invited speaker at the 2006 International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid.[4] He was an Erdős Lecturer at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2012.
Personal life
Trevisan came out as openly gay in 2000, and in 2012 he organized a collection of testimonials by homosexual theoretical computer scientists on their experiences in the research community.[5]
References
- ↑ Luca Trevisan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Luca Trevisan at Bocconi University, retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ↑ Prizes: Danny Lewin Best Student Paper Award , ACM SIGACT, retrieved 2015-07-08.
- ↑ Proceedings of ICM 2006 , retrieved 2015-07-08.
- ↑ "Turing Centennial Post 4: Luca Trevisan", in theory, July 2, 2012, https://lucatrevisan.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/turing-centennial-post-4-luca-trevisan/.
External links
- List of Publications
- in theory, Trevisan's blog
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