Noga Alon

Noga Alon is the Baumritter Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Computer Science at Tel Aviv University and currently a Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1983 and has held visiting positions at MIT, Harvard, Institute for Advanced Study, IBM Almaden, Bell Labs, and Microsoft Research.

Research Focus

His work centers on combinatorics and graph theory applied to theoretical computer science. Key contributions include:

• Expander graphs and applications
• Derandomization techniques
• Streaming algorithms foundation
• Algebraic/probabilistic methods in discrete mathematics
• Information theory and combinatorial geometry

Honors and Leadership

• Member: Israel Academy of Sciences, Academia Europaea
• Fellow: ACM, AMS
• Editorial board member for 12+ technical journals
• Plenary speaker at International Congress of Mathematicians (2002)

Supervised 25+ PhD students. Authored 600+ research papers and the book The Probabilistic Method (4th ed., 2016).