Ronitt Rubinfeld

Ronitt Rubinfeld
Fields Computer science
Institutions
Alma mater Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1990

University of Michigan
Doctoral advisor Manuel Blum
Doctoral students Tugkan Batu
Funda Ergun
Kevin Matulef
Krzysztof Onak
S. Ravikumar
Reut Levi
Ning Xie
Arnab Bhattacharyya
Notable awards ACM Fellow (2014)

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

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]

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, ACM, January 8, 2015, retrieved 2015-01-08.
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