Benny Sudakov

Benny Sudakov was born in 1969 in Tbilisi

Sudakov was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, in October 1969. He finished his undergraduate studies at Tbilisi State University in 1990.

After moving to Israel, he completed a master's degree at Tel Aviv University in 1993. He earned his PhD there in 1999 under Noga Alon.

From 1999 to 2002 he held a Veblen Research Instructorship, shared by Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study. He was later an assistant professor at Princeton until 2007 and a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. In July 2013 he joined ETH Zurich as a professor.

His papers cover extremal combinatorics, Ramsey theory, random graphs and positional games. In 2010 he gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad. He became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012.