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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

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

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 a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in 2020[4] and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.[5]

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.
  5. ^ Miller, Sandi (May 12, 2022). "Three from MIT elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2022". MIT News. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.