Benny Sudakov

Benny Sudakov (Hebrew: בני סודקוב; born October 1969) and completed his undergraduate studies at Tbilisi State University in 1990. From 1999 until 2002, he held a Veblen Research Instructorship, a joint position between Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study. Until 2007, he was an assistant professor at Princeton University. Until 2014, he was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. In July 2013, Sudakov joined ETH Zurich as a professor.

Sudakov has broad interests within the field of combinatorics, having written papers on extremal combinatorics, Ramsey theory, random graphs, and positional games. He gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010 at Hyderabad, on the topic of "Combinatorics".