Bio

Ronitt Rubinfeld is an Edwin Sibley Webster Professor at MIT’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department, where she has been on the faculty since 2004. She graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Computer Engineering, and from the University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1990. After postdoctoral positions at Princeton University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, she held faculty positions at Cornell University and Tel Aviv University, and has been a member of the research staff at NEC Research Institute. Her work has received the Symposium on Theory of Computing 30 years Test of Time award. Ronitt Rubinfeld was an ONR Young Investigator, a Sloan Fellow, a Guggenheim fellow and an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2006. She is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.