Dana Moshkovitz

Dana Moshkovitz Aaronson (Hebrew: דנה מושקוביץ‎) is an Israeli theoretical computer scientist whose research topics include approximation algorithms and probabilistically checkable proofs. She is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin.

Dana Moshkovitz (rightmost) at the MFO Workshop Complexity Theory, Nov. 2009

Education and career

Moshkovitz completed her Ph.D. in 2008 at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Her dissertation, Two Query Probabilistic Checking of Proofs with Subconstant Error, was supervised by Ran Raz,[1] and won the 2009 Haim Nessyahu Prize of the Israel Mathematical Union for the best mathematics dissertation in Israel.[2]

After postdoctoral research at Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study, Moshkovitz became a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She moved to the University of Texas as an associate professor in 2016.[3][4]

Personal life

Moshkovitz is married to computer scientist Scott Aaronson.[4]

gollark: I've got several games in Java, one which seems to actually be Electron, and I think some in C++.
gollark: Well, yes, a lot of people are idiots and just go "ah yes we will just use CLOUD™ and throw money at it", but *sometimes* companies will actually optimize their stuff.
gollark: A lot of stuff is CLOUD™ now, which means you can throw lots of capacity at it easily, *but* it costs hilariously large amounts of money.
gollark: Alternatively, if your application is so glacially slow that your server can only manage 1 request a second or something, you probably won't just buy 100 servers.
gollark: If you're, I don't know, Netflix, then if you can pay a programmer to shave off 5% of your CPU use, you can probably cut down costs 5% too.

References
  1. Dana Moshkovitz at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. The Haim Nessyahu Prize in Mathematics, MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, retrieved 2019-09-21
  3. "Dana Moshkovitz – Theoretical Computer Science", New Faculty, University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Science, retrieved 2019-09-21
  4. Aaronson, Scott (February 28, 2016), "From Boston to Austin", Shtetl-Optimized
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