Avrim Blum, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Avrim Blum

computer scientist

Date of Birth: 27-May-1966

Place of Birth: Berkeley, California, United States

Profession: computer scientist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Avrim Blum (born 27 May 1966) is a computer scientist.
In 2007, he was made a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to learning theory and algorithms." Blum attended MIT, where he received his Ph.D.
in 1991 under professor Ron Rivest.
He was a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University from 1991 to 2017.In 2017, he joined Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago as professor and Chief Academic Officer. His main work has been in the area of theoretical computer science, with particular activity in the fields of machine learning, computational learning theory, algorithmic game theory, and algorithms. Avrim is the son of two other well-known computer scientists, Manuel Blum, 1995 Turing Award winner, and Lenore Blum.