Amir Dembo

Stanford University


Primary Section: 32, Applied Mathematical Sciences
Secondary Section: 11, Mathematics
Membership Type:
Member (elected 2022)

Biosketch

Amir Dembo is a mathematician known for his work in probability theory. He has contributed to the theory of large deviations, spin glass dynamics, asymptotic of large random matrices and graphs, path properties of random walk and Brownian motion and Gibbs measures on sparse random graphs. He is motivated by, and contributed to, applications of probability theory to engineering and statistical physics. Dembo was born and raised in Haifa, Israel. He received all his degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, obtaining a DSc in 1986 (with David Malah as adviser). After post docs at Brown University Applied Mathematics and at Stanford's Electrical Engineering, he joined Stanford university as assistant professor of statistics and mathematics in 1990. He currently holds the Marjorie Mhoon Fair endowed chair in quantitative science at Stanford, with a curtesy appointment in Electrical Engineering. Dembo spoke at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid, is a fellow of the IMS and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Research Interests

I am interested in many aspects of probability theory and its applications. My earlier works on signal processing, information theory, neural networks and biomolecular sequence alignment, led me to the theory of large deviations. I then became interested in spin glass dynamics, random matrices, path properties of random walk and Brownian motion and more recently, in the asymptotic of large sparse random graphs and related Gibbs measures and interacting particles.

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