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Researcher · Institute for Advanced Study · United States

Avi Wigderson

Avi Wigderson publishes mostly in Computational Theory and Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Networks and Communications, on topics such as Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs, Cryptography and Data Security and Advanced Graph Theory Research.

ORCID 0000-0002-1539-1417 OpenAlex
World rank
#71,010
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#27,421
of 1,627,098
Works
423
Citations
29k
Citations per work
67.8
h-index
75
i10-index 252Top 0.1% in Computational Theory and Mathematics
Avi Wigderson

What does Avi Wigderson research?

Avi Wigderson's work is mostly in Computer Science (75%), Engineering (5%), Mathematics (3%).

Physical Sciences: 350 works · 82.8% of their workComputer Science: 319 works · 75.3% of their workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 159 works · 37.7% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 113 works · 26.8% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 36 works · 8.6% of their workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 9 works · 2.2% of their workEngineering: 19 works · 4.6% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 19 works · 4.6% of their workMathematics: 12 works · 2.9% of their workDiscrete Mathematics and Combinatorics: 12 works · 2.9% of their workEverything else: 73 works · 17.2% of their workTHEIR WORKAvi Wigderson423works
Physical Sciences83%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science31975.3%
    2. Engineering194.6%
    3. Mathematics122.9%
  2. Everything else7317.2%
  1. 1Computational Theory and Mathematics38% of their works
  2. 2Artificial Intelligence27% of their works
  3. 3Computer Networks and Communications9% of their works
  4. 4Electrical and Electronic Engineering5% of their works
  5. 5Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics3% of their works
  6. 6Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Avi Wigderson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Algorithmic Applications, Approximation Algorithms, Combinatorial Optimization, Complexity Theory, Homomorphic Encryption, Identity-Based Encryption, Graph Theory and Parameterized Complexity.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Algorithmic Applications2762 topics
  2. Approximation Algorithms2762 topics
  3. Combinatorial Optimization2041 topic
  4. Complexity Theory2041 topic
  5. Homomorphic Encryption781 topic
  6. Identity-Based Encryption781 topic
  7. Graph Theory721 topic
  8. Parameterized Complexity721 topic
  9. Algorithmic Information Theory701 topic
  10. Computability701 topic
  11. Active Learning571 topic
  12. Machine Learning571 topic
  13. Compression471 topic
  14. Suffix Arrays471 topic
  15. Cryptography461 topic
  16. Error-Correcting Codes461 topic
  17. Fiber Bragg Grating391 topic
  18. Spectral Amplitude Coding391 topic

Where does Avi Wigderson work?

Avi Wigderson's main affiliation in the publication record is Institute for Advanced Study, United States.

How many publications and citations does Avi Wigderson have?

OpenAlex counts 423 works and 28,670 citations for Avi Wigderson, an h-index of 75, ranking #71,010 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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