Ran Raz
Ran Raz () is a computer scientist who works in the area of computational complexity theory. He was a professor in the faculty of mathematics and computer science at the Weizmann Institute. He is now a professor of computer science at Princeton University. Ran Raz received his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1992 under Avi Wigderson and Michael Ben-Or. Ran Raz is well known for his work on interactive proof systems. His two most-cited papers are on multi-prover interactive proofs and on probabilistically checkable proofs. Ran Raz received the Erdős Prize in 2002 . His work has been awarded in the top conferences in theoretical computer science. In 2004, he received the best paper award in ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) for , and the best paper award in IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity (CCC) for . In 2008, the work received the best paper award in IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS).