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Avishay Tal is a member of Berkeley's Theory Group. He received his Ph.D. in 2015 from the Weizmann Institute of Science under the guidance of Ran Raz. Prior to that, he completed his Master's degree at Technion, working under the supervision of Amir Shpilka. He has held postdoctoral appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study, hosted by Avi Wigderson, and at the Simons Institute as part of the Lower Bounds in Computational Complexity program. He also worked at Stanford University under Omer Reingold. His research interests include computational complexity, analysis of boolean functions, circuit complexity, formula complexity, query complexity, pseudorandomness, learning, combinatorics, and quantum computing, particularly focusing on the connections between algorithms and lower bounds.
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