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Assaf Naor

Assaf Naor is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist, a professor of mathematics at Princeton University known for research on metric spaces.

born 1975Research on metric spacesWork on the Grothendieck inequalityApplications to theoretical computer science

Born: 7 May 1975, Rehovot
Occupation: mathematician, computer scientist, university teacher
Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Assaf Naor was born in 1975 in Rehovot

Assaf Naor was born on May 7, 1975, in Rehovot. He holds Israeli, American and Czech citizenship.

He studied mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, earning a bachelor's degree in 1996 and a master's degree in 1998. He completed his doctorate there in 2002 under Joram Lindenstrauss.

From 2002 to 2007 he worked at Microsoft Research, first as a postdoctoral researcher and later as a permanent member of its theory group. He joined New York University in 2006, became an associate professor in 2009, and moved to Princeton University in 2014.

His research deals with metric spaces, their properties and related algorithms, including work on the Grothendieck inequality and metrical task systems. He received the Salem Prize in 2008, the Bôcher Memorial Prize in 2011, the Nemmers Prize in 2018 and the Ostrowski Prize in 2019.