Shachar Lovett graduated from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 2010; his advisors were Omer Reingold and Ran Raz. He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, School of Mathematics between 2010-2012. Since then, he has been a faculty member at the University of California, San Diego. He is interested in the role that structure and randomness play in computation and mathematics, and in particular in computational complexity, coding theory, pseudo-randomness and algebraic constructions.