Julia Kempe is a French, German, and Israeli researcher in quantum computing. [1] She is currently the Director of the Center for Data Science at NYU and Professor at the Courant Institute. [2]
Julia Kempe is a French, German, and Israeli researcher in quantum computing. [1] She is currently the Director of the Center for Data Science at NYU and Professor at the Courant Institute. [2]
Kempe was born in East Berlin, to a family of Russian descent. [3] She moved to Austria in 1990, [4] and did her undergraduate studies in mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna from 1992 to 1995, with a year as an exchange student in physics at the University of Technology Sydney. She then earned two Master of Advanced Studies (DEA) degrees in France: one in mathematics in 1996 from Pierre and Marie Curie University and another in 1997 in physics from the École normale supérieure . She completed two doctorates in 2001. The dissertation for her Ph.D. in computer science from the École nationale supérieure des télécommunications was entitled Quantum Computing: Random Walks and Entanglement, and was supervised by Gérard Cohen. Her second Ph.D., in mathematics, was from the University of California, Berkeley, with a dissertation entitled Universal Noiseless Quantum Computation: Theory and Applications and was jointly supervised by Elwyn Berlekamp and chemist K. Birgitta Whaley. [5]
She joined CNRS at the University of Paris-Sud in 2001 (overlapping with postdoctoral studies at Berkeley and the Berkeley Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), joined the Tel Aviv University faculty in 2007 [6] , and moved her CNRS position from Paris-Sud to Paris Diderot in 2010. [5] . Between 2011 and 2018 she was a researcher in finance. [5] She became director of the Center of Data Science at NYU and a professor at the Courant Institute in September 2018. [2]
In 2006, Kempe won the bronze medal of CNRS and the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize of the French government. [3] [7] In 2009 she won the Krill Prize of the Wolf Foundation, [8] and in 2010 she won the Trophée des femmes en or (English: "Women in Gold" trophy ) for her research. [1] In 1998 she received a reward from Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (English: "German Academic Scholarship Foundation") which was awarded to only 0.25% of students at the time. [10] She became a knight in the National Order of Merit in 2010. [5] In 2018, she was elected to the Academia Europaea. [9]
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