Eleanor Rieffel

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Eleanor Gilbert Rieffel (born 1965) [1] is a mathematician interested in quantum computing, computer vision, and cryptography. She is a senior research scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center. [2]

Rieffel earned her Ph.D. in 1993 from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her dissertation, Groups Coarse Quasi-Isometric to the Hyperbolic Plane Cross the Real Line, concerned geometric group theory, and was supervised by Geoffrey Mess. [3] After working for FX Palo Alto Laboratory, she joined NASA in 2012. [2] In 2019 she won the NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal. [4]

With Wolfgang Polak, Rieffel is the author of the book Quantum Computing: A Gentle Introduction (MIT Press, 2011). [5]

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References

  1. Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2018-12-01.
  2. 1 2 Eleanor G. Rieffel, NASA, retrieved 2018-11-18
  3. Eleanor Rieffel at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. NASA Ames Astrogram - September 2019 retrieved 2019-10-24.
  5. Reviews of Quantum Computing: A Gentle Introduction: