Allen Tannenbaum

Education and career Tannenbaum majored in mathematics at Columbia University, graduating in 1973. He completed a doctorate at Harvard University three years later, in 1976. His doctoral dissertation, Deformations of I-Cycles and the Chow Scheme, was supervised by Heisuke Hironaka.

He became an assistant professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel from 1976 to 1978, and then held research positions at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in France, ETH Zurich in Switzerland, and the Weizmann Institute, from 1978 to 1983. While at the Weizmann Institute, he also became an associate professor at the University of Florida, from 1982 until 1984, when he moved to Ben-Gurion University. Continuing at Ben-Gurion University until 1986, he also held a visiting professorship at McGill University in Canada from 1985 to 1986. He was named as a 2023 International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Fellow "for foundational contributions to robust control and computer vision".

Personal life Tannenbaum was born on January 25, 1953 in New York City.