Ronitt Rubinfeld

Ronitt Rubinfeld is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT and a professor of computer sciences at Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

Ronitt Rubinfeld
Alma materPh.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1990
University of Michigan, B.S.E.
AwardsACM Fellow (2014)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
Institutions
  • MIT
  • Tel-Aviv University
Doctoral advisorManuel Blum

Education

Rubinfeld graduated from the University of Michigan with a BSE in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Following that, she received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley under the supervision of Manuel Blum.[1]

Research

Rubinfeld's research interests include randomized and sublinear time algorithms. In particular, her work focuses on what can be understood about data by looking at only a very small portion of it.

Awards and honors

She gave an invited lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2006.[2] She became a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2014 for contributions to delegated computation, sublinear time algorithms and property testing.[3]

gollark: BSA Purple?
gollark: Or that other one of just a page with eggs all over the screen with new ones being added every second.
gollark: I kind of want to make a demo of the ridiculous infinite-scroll-cave idea.
gollark: Soulwar instead?
gollark: How about: the cave is just an infinite-scroll list of descriptions?

References
  1. Ronitt Rubinfeld at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. "ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897". International Congress of Mathematicians.
  3. ACM Names Fellows for Innovations in Computing Archived 2015-01-09 at the Wayback Machine, ACM, January 8, 2015, retrieved 2015-01-08.
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