Assaf Naor (Hebrew: אסף נאור; born May 7, 1975) is an Israeli American and Czech mathematician, computer scientist, and a professor of mathematics at Princeton University.
[3] Naor's research concerns metric spaces, their properties, and related algorithms, including improved upper bounds on the Grothendieck inequality, applications of this inequality, and research on metrical task systems.
[7] He won the Salem Prize in 2008 for "contributions to the structural theory of metric spaces and its applications to computer science",[8] and in the same year was given a European Mathematical Society Prize[3] (one of ten awarded to outstanding younger mathematicians).
He won the Bôcher Memorial Prize in 2011 "for introducing new invariants of metric spaces and for applying his new understanding of the distortion between various metric structures to theoretical computer science".
[11] He gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010, on the topic of "Functional Analysis and Applications".