Amir Dembo (born 25 October 1958,

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) is an Israeli-American mathematician, specializing in probability theory. He was elected a member of the

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in 2022.

Biography

Dembo received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1980 from the Technion. He obtained in 1986 his doctorate in electrical engineering under the supervision of David Malah with the thesis "Design of Digital FIR Filter Arrays". He joined Stanford University as Assistant Professor of Statistics and Mathematics in 1990, and is currently the Marjorie Mhoon Fair Professor in Quantitative Science there. His research deals with probability theory and stochastic processes, the theory of

large deviations In probability theory, the theory of large deviations concerns the asymptotic behaviour of remote tails of sequences of probability distributions. While some basic ideas of the theory can be traced to Laplace, the formalization started with insura ...

, the spectral theory of

random matrices In probability theory and mathematical physics, a random matrix is a matrix-valued random variable—that is, a matrix in which some or all elements are random variables. Many important properties of physical systems can be represented mathemat ...

random walks In mathematics, a random walk is a random process that describes a path that consists of a succession of random steps on some Space (mathematics), mathematical space. An elementary example of a random walk is the random walk on the integer n ...

, and interacting particle systems. He was Invited Speaker with the talk ''Simple random covering, disconnection, late and favorite points'' at the

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in 2006. Dembo is a fellow of the

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. His doctoral students include

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and Jason P. Miller.

Selected publications

Articles

*with

Yuval Peres Yuval Peres ( he, יובל פרס; born 5 October 1963) is a mathematician known for his research in probability theory, ergodic theory, mathematical analysis, theoretical computer science, and in particular for topics such as fractals and Hausdo ...

, Jay Rosen and Ofer Zeitouni: *with Bjorn Poonen, Qi-Man Shao and Ofer Zeitouni: *with

, Jay Rosen and Ofer Zeitouni:

Books

*with Ofer Zeitouni: Large Deviations Techniques and Applications, Springer,

Sources

*Zhan Shi: Problèmes de recouvrement et points exceptionnels pour la marche aléatoire et le mouvement brownien, d’après Dembo, Peres, Rosen, Zeitouni, Seminaire Bourbaki, No. 951, 2005

References

External links

Amir Dembo's home page
Stanford University {{DEFAULTSORT:Dembo, Amir 20th-century American mathematicians Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni 1958 births Living people Israeli mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Annals of Probability editors Probability Theory and Related Fields editors