Mark Braverman (mathematician)

Mark Braverman (Hebrew: מארק ברוורמן; born 1984) is an Israeli mathematician and theoretical computer scientist. He was awarded an EMS Prize in 2016 as well as Presburger Award in the same year.^[2][3] In 2019, he was awarded the Alan T. Waterman Award.^[4] In 2022, he won the IMU Abacus Medal.^[5]

Mark Braverman
מארק ברוורמן
Born	1984 (1984) Perm, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Israeli
Alma mater	University of Toronto
Awards	Stephen Smale Prize 2014 EMS Prize 2016 Presburger Award 2016 Waterman Award 2019 IMU Abacus Medal 2022
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	Microsoft Research University of Toronto Princeton University
Thesis	Computability and Complexity of Julia Sets[1]  (2008)
Doctoral advisor	Stephen Cook
Website	www.cs.princeton.edu/~mbraverm/pmwiki/index.php

He earned his doctorate from the University of Toronto in 2008, under the supervision of Stephen Cook. After this, he did post-doctoral research at Microsoft Research and then joined the faculty at University of Toronto. In 2011, he joined the Princeton University department of computer science.^[6] In 2014, he was an Invited Speaker with talk Interactive information and coding theory at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul.^[7]

Braverman is the son of mathematician Elena Braverman^[8] and, through her, the grandson of his co-author, mathematical statistician Yan Petrovich Lumel'skii [ru].^[9]