David Zuckerman

Professor
David Zuckerman holds an Endowed Professorship in the Texas Computer Science. He received an A.B. in Mathematics from Harvard University in 1987 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley in 1991. He was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT from 1991-1993, and at Hebrew University in the Fall of 1993. He has been with the University of Texas since then, visiting U.C. Berkeley from 1999-2000, Harvard University from 2004-2005, and the Institute for Advanced Study from 2011-12. In Spring 2017, he is visiting U.C. Berkeley, co-organizing the Simons Program on Pseudorandomness.

Research

Research Interests: 
  • Randomness extraction
  • Pseudorandomness
  • Coding theory
  • Cryptography, and other aspects of complexity theory
Current Research: 

His research focuses primarily on pseudorandomness and the role of randomness in computing. He is best known for his work on randomness extractors and their applications. His other research interests include coding theory, distributed computing, cryptography, inapproximability, and other areas of complexity theory.

Select Publications

E. Chattopadhyay and D. Zuckerman. 2015. "Explicit Two-Source Extractors and Resilient Functions".
E. Chattopadhyay and D. Zuckerman. 2014. "Non-malleable codes against constant split-state tampering".
Y. Dodis, X. Li, T.D. Wooley, and D. Zuckerman. 2011. "Privacy amplification and non-malleable extractors via character sums".
R. Meka and D. Zuckerman. 2010. "Pseudorandom generators for polynomial threshold functions" .
R. Impagliazzo, R. Meka, and D. Zuckerman . 2012. "Pseudorandomness from Shrinkage".

Awards & Honors

2013 - ACM Fellow
2004-05 - John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1996-2006 - David and Lucile Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering
1996-2000 - Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
1994-2000 - NSF Young Investigator Award
1990 - Machtey Award (Best Student Paper Award), FOCS
1985 - William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition