Ronitt Rubinfeld

Ronitt Rubinfeld is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT.

Ronitt Rubinfeld
Alma materPh.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1990
University of Michigan, B.S.E.
AwardsACM Fellow (2014)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
Institutions
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] She was elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in 2020.[4]

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.
  4. "AAAS Fellows Elected" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society.
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