Avrim Blum

Avrim Louis Blum (born 27 May 1966) is a computer scientist. In 2007, he was made a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery^[1] "for contributions to learning theory and algorithms." Blum attended MIT, where he received his Ph.D. in 1991 under professor Ron Rivest.^[2] He was a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University from 1991 to 2017.^[3]

Avrim Blum
Born	Avrim Louis Blum (1966-05-27) May 27, 1966 (age 59) Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known for	Co-training
Parents	Manuel Blum (father) Lenore Blum (mother)
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	Carnegie Mellon University Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Thesis	Algorithms for Approximate Graph Coloring (1991)
Doctoral advisor	Ron Rivest
Doctoral students	Maria-Florina Balcan Shuchi Chawla Adam Tauman Kalai John Langford Katrina Ligett Jamie Morgenstern Aaron Roth Santosh Vempala

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, database privacy, and algorithms.

Avrim is the son of two other well-known computer scientists, Manuel Blum, winner of the 1995 Turing Award, and Lenore Blum.^[4]

Bibliography

• Blum, Avrim, John Hopcroft, and Ravindran Kannan. "Foundations of Data Science," February 27, 2020. https://home.ttic.edu/~avrim/book.pdf.

See also

• Co-training