Umesh Vazirani, Ph.D.
Roger A. Strauch Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer SciencesCo-director, Berkeley Quantum Computation Center, University of California, Berkeley
Vazirani is the Roger A. Strauch Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, and research director for quantum computing at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. His 1993 paper with Ethan Bernstein laid the foundations of quantum complexity theory. Over his career, he has worked on classical and quantum algorithms, quantum Hamiltonian complexity and interactive classical testing of quantum devices. Vazirani is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, winner of the Fulkerson Prize and co-author of two books: “An Introduction to Computational Learning Theory” and “Algorithms.”