Ronen Eldan

Ronen Eldan is an Israeli mathematician, working at OpenAI. Previously, Eldan was a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science working on probability theory, mathematical analysis, theoretical computer science and the theory of machine learning. He received the 2018 Erdős Prize, the 2022 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists and the 2023 New Horizons Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics. He was a speaker at the 2022 International Congress of Mathematicians.

Selected works

Sébastien Bubeck, Ronen Eldan: “Multi-scale exploration of convex functions and bandit convex optimization”, 2015; arXiv:1507.06580. Sébastien Bubeck, Ronen Eldan, Yin Tat Lee: “Kernel-based methods for bandit convex optimization”, 2016; arXiv:1607.03084.

Awards Haim Nessyahu Prize for Mathematics (2013) Erdős Prize in Mathematics (2018) Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists (2022) New Horizons Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2023)