Avrim Blum

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Avrim Blum
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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
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

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]

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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]

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  1. "2024 ACM Fellows Celebrated for transformative contributions to computing science and technology". awards.acm.org. Retrieved February 21, 2025.
  2. Avrim Blum at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  3. "Avrim Blum's old home page". www.cs.cmu.edu. Retrieved February 21, 2025.
  4. "Dad, mom join son to form a potent computer science team at CMU". www.post-gazette.com. Archived from the original on March 25, 2009. Retrieved February 21, 2025.