About the Authors
Aram W. Harrow
Assistant Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Assistant Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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web.mit.edu/aram/
Aram W. Harrow graduated from M.I.T.
in 2005 with a Ph.D. in physics; his advisor was
Isaac Chuang. He has
since worked at the University of Bristol for five years as a lecturer
in computer science and math, and at the University of Washington as a
research professor in computer science, before returning to MIT as an
assistant professor of physics. His research focuses mainly on
quantum computing, quantum information and connections between these
fields and other areas of math, physics and computer science.
Alexandra Kolla
Assistant Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
akolla[ta]illinois[td]edu
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Assistant Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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www.cs.illinois.edu/homes/akolla/
Alexandra Kolla received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from
U.C. Berkeley under the supervision of
Umesh Vazirani. She was
a postdoc at The Institute for Advanced Study
and Microsoft
Research in Redmond. Since 2012, she has been on the faculty of the
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
She is a fellow at the Simons Institute
in Berkeley for the academic year 2013-2014. Her research focuses mostly
on spectral graph theory, approximation algorithms, complexity theory,
convex programming, and quantum computing.
Leonard J. Schulman
Professor
California Institute of Technology
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Professor
California Institute of Technology
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Leonard J. Schulman
received the \bsc\ in Mathematics in 1988
and the Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics in 1992, both from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Since 2000 he has been on the faculty of the
California Institute of Technology. He has
also held appointments at UC Berkeley,
the Weizmann Institute of Science,
the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute.
He has received the MIT Bucsela prize in mathematics, an NSF mathematical
sciences postdoctoral fellowship, an NSF CAREER award, and the IEEE
Schelkunoff prize. He is the director of the Caltech
Center for the Mathematics of
Information, is on the faculty of the
Institute for Quantum
Information and Matter, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the
SIAM Journal on Computing.
His research is in several overlapping areas: algorithms and communication
protocols; combinatorics and probability; coding and information theory;
quantum computation.