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Scientific Advisory Board

Scientific Advisory Board
The Institute’s Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) provides broad-based external advice and guidance to the Institute leadership team on a wide range of programmatic issues. The SAB is composed of 16–20 members from academia and industry with a broad scientific vision, expert knowledge of theoretical computer science, and a record of scientific leadership.

Co-Chairs

Researcher
/people/parikshit-gopalan
Apple Inc
Professor
/people/salil-vadhan
Harvard University

Members

Professor
/people/nina-balcan
Carnegie Mellon University
Professor
/people/bonnie-berger
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor
/people/shuchi-chawla
UT Austin
Head of AI Safety
/people/paul-christiano
US AI Safety Institute
Professor
/people/uri-feige
Weizmann Institute of Science
/people/martin-grohe
RWTH Aachen University
Professor
/people/monika-henzinger
Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
Professor
/people/maurice-herlihy
Brown University
Assistant Professor
/people/jon-kelner
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor
/people/orna-kupferman
Hebrew University
Professor
/people/moni-naor
Weizmann Institute
Professor
/people/ryan-odonnell
Carnegie Mellon University
Professor
/people/thomas-rothvoss
University of Washington
Professor of Computer Science
/people/rocco-servedio
Columbia University
Professor
/people/nati-srebro
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Associate Professor
/people/mary-wootters
Stanford University

Former Members

Professor
/people/scott-aaronson
University of Texas at Austin
2019–2022
Professor
/people/noga-alon
Tel Aviv University
2013–2016
Professor
/people/sanjeev-arora
Princeton University
2012–2014
Professor
/people/boaz-barak
Harvard University
2019–2022
Visiting Scientist and Program Organizer
/people/samy-bengio
Apple
2018–2020
Professor
/people/avrim-blum
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
2019–2022
Professor
/people/mark-braverman
Princeton University
2021-2024
Senior Principal Research Manager
/people/sebastien-bubeck
Open AI
2023-2024
Professor
/people/emmanuel-candes
Stanford University
2015–2018
Associate Provost, Dean and Professor
/people/jennifer-chayes
UC Berkeley
2014–2017
Professor
/people/constantinos-daskalakis
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2018–2020
Professor
/people/irit-dveer-dinur
Weizmann Institute
2018–2020
Professor
/people/cynthia-dwork
Harvard University
2012–2015
Professor
/people/steven-evans
UC Berkeley
2018–2020
Professor
/people/michel-goemans
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2019–2022
Research Director for Resilience Research Pod
/people/shafi-goldwasser
Simons Institute, UC Berkeley
2013–2016
Interim Director
/people/venkatesan-guruswami
Simons Institute, UC Berkeley
2020–2021
Founder
/people/jeff-hawkins
Numenta
2013–2016
President
/people/thomas-henzinger
IST Austria
2013–2016
Technical Fellow and Chief Scientific Officer
/people/eric-horvitz
Microsoft
2018–2020
Professor
/people/russell-impagliazzo
UC San Diego
2014–2017
Professor
/people/yuval-ishai
Technion and AWS
2020-2023
/people/bill-joy
Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
2012–2013
Professor
/people/ehud-kalai
Northwestern University
2012–2013
Professor
/people/michael-kearns
University of Pennsylvania
2012–2014
President
/people/maria-klawe
Harvey Mudd College
2012–2014
Professor
/people/jon-kleinberg
Cornell University
2012–2015
Professor Emeritus
/people/phokion-kolaitis
UC Santa Cruz and IBM Research
2017–2019
Senior Staff Research Scientist
/people/ravi-kumar
Google Inc
2021-2024
Director of AI and Professor
/people/yann-lecun
Facebook and NYU
2015–2018
Professor
/people/james-lee
University of Washington
2017–2019
Professor
/people/nati-linial
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2017–2019
Professor
/people/richard-lipton
Georgia Institute of Technology
2012–2014
Visiting Scientist and Program Organizer
/people/mike-luby
International Computer Science Institute
2015–2018
Lead Researcher
/people/dahlia-malkhi
Novi
2019–2022
Professor
/people/yishay-mansour
Tel Aviv Univ and Google Research
2021-2024
Professor
/people/kurt-mehlhorn
Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
2014–2017
Professor and Department Chair
/people/john-mitchell
Stanford University
2020-2023
Professor
/people/elchanan-mossel
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2015–2018
Director of Research
/people/peter-norvig
Google Research
2014–2017
Professor
/people/michael-paterson
University of Warwick
2012–2014
Professor
/people/john-preskill
California Institute of Technology
2012–2015
Prof
/people/tal-rabin
University of Pennsylvania and AWS
2017–2019
Vice President of Engineering
/people/prabhakar-raghavan
Google
2012–2015
Associate Professor
/people/aviv-regev
Broad Institute
2013–2016
Professor
/people/omer-reingold
Stanford University
2019–2022
Professor
/people/kenneth-ribet
UC Berkeley
2014–2017
Associate Professor
/people/tim-roughgarden
Stanford University
2012–2015
Professor
/people/ronitt-rubinfeld
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2020-2023
Partner Researcher
/people/robert-schapire
Microsoft Research
2021-2024
Professor
/people/leonard-schulman
California Institute of Technology
2015–2018
Professor
/people/ron-shamir
Tel Aviv University
2012–2013
Professor
/people/alistair-sinclair
UC Berkeley
2018–2020
Senior Scientist
/people/nikhil-srivastava
Simons Institute, UC Berkeley
2021-2023
Professor
/people/madhu-sudan
Harvard University
2015–2018
Professor
/people/eva-tardos
Cornell University
2015–2018
Professor
/people/les-valiant
Harvard University
2012–2015
Professor
/people/virginia-vassilevska-williams
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2021-2024
Professor
/people/avi-wigderson
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
2012–2015
Professor
/people/mihalis-yannakakis
Columbia University
2014–2017
Professor
/people/andrew-yao
Tsinghua University
2012–2013