Title/Position
Professor

zdvir(@cs.princeton.edu) (609) 258-6469 315 Computer Science

Homepage
https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~zdvir

Other Affiliations
Math



Research Areas: Theory

Short Bio

Zeev Dvir, aprofessor in the computer science and mathematics departments, received his Ph.D. in 2008 from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, and did post-doctoral work at the Institute for Advanced Study. He has a broad interest in theoretical computer science and mathematics, with special attention to computational complexity, pseudo-randomness, coding theory and discrete geometry. He was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship in 2013. In 2012, he won the Dénes K?nig award from the SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics, and in 2011 was awarded the Alfred Rheinstein ’11 award, given each year to an assistant professor in the School of Engineering who has shown exceptional promise.

Selected Publications

“On the size of Kakeya sets in finite fields.” Z. Dvir. Journal of the American Mathematical Society. 22:1093-1097, 2009.
“Breaking the quadratic barrier for 3-LCCs over the reals.” Z. Dvir, S. Saraf and A. Wigderson. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC), 2014.
“Fractional Sylvester-Gallai theorems.” B. Barak, Z. Dvir, A. Wigderson and A. Yehudayoff. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012.
“Subspace evasive sets.” Z. Dvir and S. Lovett. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC), 2012. Pp. 351-358.