Sofya Raskhodnikova
Sofya Raskhodnikova | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1976 |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Boston University |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Sipser |
| Notable students | Grigory Yaroslavtsev |
Sofya Raskhodnikova (born 1976)[1] is a Belarusian and American theoretical computer scientist. She is known for her research in sublinear-time algorithms, information privacy, property testing, and approximation algorithms, and was one of the first to study differentially private analysis of graphs. She is a professor of computer science at Boston University.[2]
Education and career
[edit]Raskhodnikova completed her Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003. Her dissertation, Property Testing: Theory and Applications, was supervised by Michael Sipser.[3]
After postdoctoral research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Weizmann Institute of Science, Raskhodnikova became a faculty member at Pennsylvania State University in 2007. She moved to Boston University in 2017.[2][4]
Other activities
[edit]While a student at MIT, Raskhodnikova also competed in ballroom dancing.[5] She has been one of the organizers of TCS Women, a community for women in theoretical computer science.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Birth year from WorldCat identities, retrieved 2019-09-22
- ^ a b Sofya Raskhodnikova, Professor and Associate Chair of the Faculty, Boston University Computer Science, retrieved 2019-09-22
- ^ Sofya Raskhodnikova at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Sofya Raskhodnikova, Simons Institute, 5 June 2018, retrieved 2019-09-24
- ^ Sorell, Miriam (February 21, 2003), "MIT Ballroom Dance Team Performs Well at Boston University Competition", The Tech, vol. 123, no. 6
- ^ Second TCS Women Meeting, ACM SIGACT, retrieved 2019-09-24
External links
[edit]- Home page
- Sofya Raskhodnikova publications indexed by Google Scholar
- 1976 births
- Living people
- American computer scientists
- Belarusian computer scientists
- American women computer scientists
- Theoretical computer scientists
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
- Pennsylvania State University faculty
- Boston University faculty
- American women academics
- 21st-century American women