Uri Feige

Uriel Feige is a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of the Weizmann Institute of Science. He also earned his PhD there. He conducted postdoctoral research at Princeton University and at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, and later spent a sabbatical at the Compaq Systems Research Center. In 2004-2007, he took leave from the Weizmann Institute to work with Microsoft Research’s Theory Group, and he later served as a part time consultant at Microsoft Research, Israel. His main research areas are algorithms, computational complexity, algorithmic game theory, with a recent focus on fair allocations. He served as Program Committee Chair for STOC (2007) and ICALP (2023, Track A). His work was recognized by some awards, including a Godel Award (2001), a SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize (2005), and a FOCS test of time award (2021).