Benny Sudakov

Benny Sudakov (Hebrew: בני סודקוב; born October 1969)^[1] is an Israeli mathematician, who works mainly on extremal and probabilistic combinatorics.

Benny Sudakov
בני סודקוב
Benny Sudakov in 2011
Born	October 1969 Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic
Citizenship	Israel
Alma mater	Tbilisi State University Tel Aviv University
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	UCLA Princeton University Institute for Advanced Study ETH Zurich
Thesis	Extremal Problems in Probabilistic Combinatorics and Their Algorithmic Aspects  (1999)
Doctoral advisor	Noga Alon
Doctoral students	Jacob Fox Hao Huang Peter Keevash Po-Shen Loh

Biography

He was born in Tbilisi, Georgia,^[1] and completed his undergraduate studies at Tbilisi State University in 1990.^[2] After emigrating to Israel, he received his PhD from Tel Aviv University in 1999, under the supervision of Noga Alon.^[3] From 1999 until 2002, he held a Veblen Research Instructorship,^[4] a joint position between Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study. Until 2007, he was an assistant professor at Princeton University. Until 2014, he was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.^[2] In July 2013, Sudakov joined ETH Zurich as a professor.^[5]

Sudakov has broad interests within the field of combinatorics, having written papers on extremal combinatorics, Ramsey theory, random graphs, and positional games.^[2]

In 2012, he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[6]

He gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010 at Hyderabad, on the topic of "Combinatorics".^[7]