In a festive ceremony on campus that took place this week, the Technion awarded an honorary doctorate to Prof. Avi Wigderzon, a graduate of the Taub Faculty of Computer Science and a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Research (IAS) in Princeton. The award was given to him "for his important contribution and leadership in the theoretical fields of computer science and discrete mathematics, including complexity theory, encryption, expanding graphs and more; And as a sign of gratitude for his long-standing ties with the Technion, which began in his undergraduate studies.[Back to the news index]