He was a professor in the faculty of mathematics and computer science at the Weizmann Institute before becoming a professor of computer science at Princeton University.

[1] Raz received his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1992 under Avi Wigderson and Michael Ben-Or.

In 2004, he received the best paper award in ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing for Raz (2004),[4] and the best paper award in IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity for Raz & Shpilka (2004).

[5] In 2008, the work Moshkovitz & Raz (2008) received the best paper award in IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS).

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