About the Authors
Alessandro Chiesa
Assistant professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA
alexch[ta]berkeley[td]edu
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~alexch/
Assistant professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA
alexch[ta]berkeley[td]edu
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~alexch/
Alessandro Chiesa
graduated from MIT in 2014; his advisor was Silvio Micali.
He was a postdoc at ETH Zurich between 2014-2015. Since then, he has been a
faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley. He is interested
in all kinds of proof systems, information theoretic and cryptographic.
Peter Manohar
Ph.D. student
Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
pmanohar[ta]cs[td]cmu[td]edu
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pmanohar
Ph.D. student
Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
pmanohar[ta]cs[td]cmu[td]edu
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pmanohar
Peter Manohar
is a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by
Venkat Guruswami. He graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.S. in EECS in
2019 where he was advised by Professors Alessandro Chiesa and Ren Ng.
He is broadly interested in complexity theory and cryptography, specifically
in topics such as probabilistically checkable proofs, property testing,
coding theory, and sum-of-squares.
Igor Shinkar
Assistant professor
School of Computing Science
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C. Canada
ishinkar[ta]sfu[td]ca
https://www.cs.sfu.ca/~ishinkar/
Assistant professor
School of Computing Science
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C. Canada
ishinkar[ta]sfu[td]ca
https://www.cs.sfu.ca/~ishinkar/
Igor Shinkar is an assistant professor in the School of
Computing Science at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He obtained his Ph.D. in
Computer Science from
the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel in 2014 under the supervision
of Irit Dinur. He spent two years as a postdoc
at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU, and two years as
a postdoc at UC Berkeley. His research is in theoretical computer science,
discrete mathematics, probability, and the interplay between them.