Alexander A. Sherstov, known to his friends and colleagues as Sasha, is an associate professor of computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to joining UCLA, Sasha obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin under the direction of Adam Klivans and spent two years as a postdoctoral scholar at Microsoft Research. He has broad research interests in theoretical computer science, including computational complexity theory, computational learning theory, and quantum computing.