Dorit Aharonov

Dorit Aharonov (Hebrew: דורית אהרונוב; born 1970) is an Israeli computer scientist specializing in quantum computing.

Dorit Aharonov
Born1970 (age 52–53)
Alma mater
Known forAharonov–Jones–Landau algorithm
Quantum threshold theorem
AwardsKrill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research
Scientific career
FieldsQuantum computing
InstitutionsHebrew University
Thesis'Noisy Quantum Computation' (1998)
Doctoral advisorAvi Wigderson
Michael Ben-Or
External video
video icon “A Feldenkrais Lesson for the Beginner Scientist: Professor Dorit Aharonov at TEDxJaffa”

Aharonov was born in Washington and grew up in Haifa, the daughter of the mathematician Dov Aharonov and the niece of the physicist Yakir Aharonov.

Aharonov graduated from Weizmann Institute of Science with an MSc in physics. She received her doctorate for Computer Science in 1999 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and her thesis was entitled Noisy Quantum Computation.[1] She also did her post-doctorate in the mathematics department of Princeton University and in the computer science department of University of California Berkeley.[2] She was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1998–99.[3]

Aharonov was an invited speaker in International Congress of Mathematicians 2010, Hyderabad on the topic of "Mathematical Aspects of Computer Science".[4]

Research

Aharonov's research is mainly about quantum information processes, which includes:[2][5]

  • quantum algorithms
  • quantum cryptography and computational complexity
  • quantum error corrections and fault tolerance
  • connections between quantum computation and quantum Markov chains and lattices
  • quantum Hamiltonian complexity and its connections to condensed matter physics
  • transition from quantum to classical physics
  • understanding entanglement by studying quantum complexity

References
  1. "Noisy Quantum Computation".
  2. "Institute for Quantum Computing". Retrieved 2011-02-16.
  3. Institute for Advanced Study: A Community of Scholars Archived 2013-01-06 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. "ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897". International Congress of Mathematicians. Archived from the original on 2017-11-08. Retrieved 2013-08-14.
  5. "Dorit Aharonov's Home Page". Retrieved 2011-02-16.
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