Simons Collaboration on Algorithms and Geometry: People

Oanh Nguyen is an instructor in the Department of Mathematics at Princeton University.

John Peebles is an Associate Research Scholar in the Computer Science department at Princeton University. He is interested in designing algorithms for problems including those related to linear algebra, directed graphs, and markov chains, neural networks, and statistics.

Yuval Peled is a Courant Instructor/Assistant Professor in the department of mathematics at NYU’s Courant Institute. He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University under the supervision of Nati Linial.

Aaron Potechin is a postdoctoral researcher with a joint appointment with the Simons Collaboration on Algorithms and Geometry at Cornell University and the Institute for Advanced Study.

Ran Raz is a professor of theoretical computer science at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Currently, he is also a five-year visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

Orit Raz is a postdoctoral researcher hosted jointly by the Institute for Advanced Study and the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science at Rutgers University.

Ilya Razenshteyn is a postdoctoral research scientist in the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University.