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Uriel Feige

Uriel Feige is an Israeli computer scientist and professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for co-inventing the Feige-Fiat-Shamir identification scheme and winning the Gödel Prize in 2001.

born 1959The Feige-Fiat-Shamir identification schemeThe 2001 Gödel PrizeWork on the PCP theorem

Occupation: mathematician, cryptographer, computer scientist, university teacher
Education: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Weizmann Institute of Science

Uriel Feige was born in 1959

Uriel Feige was born in Jerusalem in 1959 and grew up in Rehovot. His brother, Michael Feige, was an Israeli sociologist who was killed in the shooting attack at the Sarona complex.

He earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from the Technion in 1980. He then completed a master's degree in 1987 and a doctorate in 1990 at the Weizmann Institute, both under Adi Shamir. He did postdoctoral work at Princeton University from 1990 to 1991 and at the IBM research center in the United States from 1991 to 1992.

In 1992 he joined the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute, where he is a professor. With Amos Fiat and Adi Shamir, he developed the Feige-Fiat-Shamir identification scheme. In 2001 he received the Gödel Prize for work on the PCP theorem and its uses in hardness of approximation.

Uriel Feige's life in 8 milestones

1959
Born in Jerusalem.
1980
Earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from the Technion.
1987
Earned a master's degree at the Weizmann Institute.
1990
Completed his doctorate at the Weizmann Institute under Adi Shamir.
1990
Began postdoctoral work at Princeton University.
1991
Moved to postdoctoral work at the IBM research center in the United States.
1992
Joined the faculty of the Weizmann Institute.
2001
Received the Gödel Prize.