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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

Parikshit Gopalan
Parikshit Gopalan
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Apple Inc
Mary Wootters
Mary Wootters
Mary Wootters
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Stanford University

Members

Bonnie Berger
Bonnie Berger
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paul Christiano
Paul Christiano
Paul Christiano
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US AI Safety Institute
Vincent Cohen-Addad
Vincent Cohen-Addad
Vincent Cohen-Addad
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Google Research
James Demmel
James Demmel
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UC Berkeley
Uri Feige
Uri Feige
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Weizmann Institute of Science
Martin Grohe
Martin Grohe
Martin Grohe
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RWTH Aachen University
Monika Henzinger
Monika Henzinger
Monika Henzinger
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Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
Maurice Herlihy
Maurice Herlihy
Maurice Herlihy
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Brown University
Yael Kalai
Yael Kalai
Yael Kalai
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MIT
Robert Kleinberg
Robert Kleinberg
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Cornell University
Orna Kupferman
Orna Kupferman
Orna Kupferman
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Hebrew University
Thomas Rothvoss
Thomas Rothvoss
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University of Washington
Nathan Srebro
Nathan Srebro
Nathan Srebro
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Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Nati Srebro
Nati Srebro
Nati Srebro
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Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Rachel Ward
Rachel Ward
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University of Texas at Austin
Ryan Williams
Ryan Williams
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Former Members

Scott Aaronson
Scott Aaronson
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University of Texas at Austin
2019–2022
Dorit Aharonov
Dorit Aharonov
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2012–2014
Noga Alon
Noga Alon
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Tel Aviv University
2013–2016
Sanjeev Arora
Sanjeev Arora
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Princeton University
2012–2014
Nina Balcan
Nina Balcan
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Carnegie Mellon University
2023-2025
Boaz Barak
Boaz Barak
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Harvard University
2019–2022
Samy Bengio
Samy Bengio
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Apple
2018–2020
Avrim Blum
Avrim Blum
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Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
2019–2022
Mark Braverman
Mark Braverman
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Princeton University
2021-2024
Sebastien Bubeck
Sebastien Bubeck
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Open AI
2023-2024
Emmanuel Candès
Emmanuel Candès
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Stanford University
2015–2018
Moses Charikar
Moses Charikar
Moses Charikar
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Stanford University
2015–2018
Shuchi Chawla
Shuchi Chawla
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University of Texas at Austin
2023-2025
Jennifer Chayes
Jennifer Chayes
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UC Berkeley
2014–2017
Constantinos Daskalakis
Constantinos Daskalakis
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2018–2020
Irit Dveer Dinur
Irit Dveer Dinur
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Weizmann Institute
2018–2020
Cynthia Dwork
Cynthia Dwork
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Harvard University
2012–2015
Steven Evans
Steven Evans
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UC Berkeley
2018–2020
Michel Goemans
Michel Goemans
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2019–2022
Shafi Goldwasser
Shafi Goldwasser
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Simons Institute, UC Berkeley
2013–2016
Venkatesan Guruswami
Venkatesan Guruswami
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Simons Institute, UC Berkeley
2020–2021
Jeff Hawkins
Jeff Hawkins
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Numenta
2013–2016
Thomas Henzinger
Thomas Henzinger
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IST Austria
2013–2016
Eric Horvitz
Eric Horvitz
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Microsoft
2018–2020
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Russell Impagliazzo
Russell Impagliazzo
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UC San Diego
2014–2017
Yuval Ishai
Yuval Ishai
Yuval Ishai
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Technion and AWS
2020-2023
Bill Joy
Bill Joy
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Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
2012–2013
Ehud Kalai
Ehud Kalai
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Northwestern University
2012–2013
Michael Kearns
Michael Kearns
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University of Pennsylvania
2012–2014
Jon Kelner
Jon Kelner
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MIT
2023-2025
Iordanis Kerenidis
Iordanis Kerenidis
Iordanis Kerenidis
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CNRS / QC Ware
2023-2025
Maria Klawe
Maria Klawe
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Harvey Mudd College
2012–2014
Jon Kleinberg
Jon Kleinberg
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Cornell University
2012–2015
Phokion Kolaitis
Phokion Kolaitis
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UC Santa Cruz and IBM Research
2017–2019
Ravi Kumar
Ravi Kumar
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Google Inc
2021-2024
Yann LeCun
Yann LeCun
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Facebook and NYU
2015–2018
James Lee
James Lee
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University of Washington
2017–2019
Richard Lipton
Richard Lipton
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Georgia Institute of Technology
2012–2014
Mike Luby
Mike Luby
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International Computer Science Institute
2015–2018
Dahlia Malkhi
Dahlia Malkhi
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Novi
2019–2022
Yishay Mansour
Yishay Mansour
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Tel Aviv Univ and Google Research
2021-2024
Kurt Mehlhorn
Kurt Mehlhorn
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Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
2014–2017
John Mitchell
John Mitchell
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Stanford University
2020-2023
Elchanan Mossel
Elchanan Mossel
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2015–2018
Moni Naor
Moni Naor
Moni Naor
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Weizmann Institute of Science
2023-2025
Peter Norvig
Peter Norvig
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Google Research
2014–2017
Ryan O'Donnell
Ryan O'Donnell
Ryan O'Donnell
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Carnegie Mellon University
2023-2025
Christos Papadimitriou
Christos Papadimitriou
Christos Papadimitriou
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Columbia University
2019–2022
Michael Paterson
Michael Paterson
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University of Warwick
2012–2014
Toni Pitassi
Toni Pitassi
Toni Pitassi
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Columbia University
2019–2022
John Preskill
John Preskill
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California Institute of Technology
2012–2015
Tal Rabin
Tal Rabin
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University of Pennsylvania and AWS
2017–2019
Prabhakar Raghavan
Prabhakar Raghavan
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Google
2012–2015
Aviv Regev
Aviv Regev
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Broad Institute
2013–2016
Kenneth Ribet
Kenneth Ribet
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UC Berkeley
2014–2017
Tim Roughgarden
Tim Roughgarden
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Stanford University
2012–2015
Ronitt Rubinfeld
Ronitt Rubinfeld
Ronitt Rubinfeld
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2020-2023
Robert Schapire
Robert Schapire
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Microsoft Research
2021-2024
Leonard Schulman
Leonard Schulman
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California Institute of Technology
2015–2018
Rocco Servedio
Rocco Servedio
Rocco Servedio
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Columbia University
2023-2025
Ron Shamir
Ron Shamir
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Tel Aviv University
2012–2013
Alistair Sinclair
Alistair Sinclair
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UC Berkeley
2018–2020
Nikhil Srivastava
Nikhil Srivastava
Nikhil Srivastava
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Simons Institute, UC Berkeley
2021-2023
Madhu Sudan
Madhu Sudan
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Harvard University
2015–2018
Éva Tardos
Éva Tardos
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Cornell University
2015–2018
Les Valiant
Les Valiant
Les Valiant
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Harvard University
2012–2015
Moshe Vardi
Moshe Vardi
Moshe Vardi
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Rice University
2012–2013
Virginia Vassilevska Williams
Virginia Vassilevska Williams
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2021-2024
Avi Wigderson
Avi Wigderson
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Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
2012–2015
Mihalis Yannakakis
Mihalis Yannakakis
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Columbia University
2014–2017
Andrew Yao
Andrew Yao
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Tsinghua University
2012–2013
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