Noga Alon

Noga Alon is an Israeli mathematician, born in 1956 in Haifa, and professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University and a professor of mathematics at Princeton University, noted for his contributions to combinatorics and theoretical computer science and the author of hundreds of papers. He graduated from the Hebrew Reali School in 1974 and summa cum laude from the Technion in 1979, earned a master degree in mathematics from Tel Aviv University in 1980 and received his Ph.D. in mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1983 with the dissertation Extremal Problems in Combinatorics under Micha Perles. After postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he returned to Tel Aviv University as a senior lecturer in 1985 and was promoted to full professor in 1988. He headed the School of Mathematical Science from 1999 to 2001, was editor-in-chief of Random Structures and Algorithms from 2008 through 2023, became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2017 and joined Princeton in 2018. His research focuses on combinatorics, theoretical computer science and the probabilistic method.