Umesh Vazirani
Research Director for Quantum Computing, Simons Institute, UC Berkeley
Umesh V. Vazirani is a Research Director for Quantum Computing Simons Institute, and the Roger A. Strauch Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and the director of the Berkeley Quantum Computation Center. He received his BTech in Computer Science from MIT in 1981 and his PhD in Computer Science from Berkeley in 1985. Vazirani's research interests include computational learning theory, combinatorial algorithms, computational complexity theory and quantum computing. He received the 2012 Fulkerson Prize (with Sanjeev Arora and Satish Rao) for his work on approximation algorithms for sparsest cut.
Program Visits
- Quantum Algorithms, Complexity, and Fault Tolerance, Spring 2024. Visiting Scientist, Program Organizer and Workshop Organizer.
- Extended Reunion: The Quantum Wave in Computing, Summer 2022. Visiting Scientist and Workshop Organizer.
- Summer Cluster: Lattices and Beyond, Summer 2022. Visiting Scientist.
- Geometric Methods in Optimization and Sampling, Fall 2021. Visiting Scientist.
- Summer Cluster in Quantum Computation, Summer 2021. Program Organizer.
- Lattices: Algorithms, Complexity, and Cryptography, Spring 2020. Visiting Scientist.
- The Quantum Wave in Computing, Spring 2020. Visiting Scientist, Program Organizer and Workshop Organizer.
- Lower Bounds in Computational Complexity, Fall 2018. Visiting Scientist.
- Summer Cluster: Challenges in Quantum Computation, Summer 2018. Visiting Scientist and Program Organizer.
- Quantum Hamiltonian Complexity, Spring 2014. Visiting Scientist, Program Organizer and Workshop Organizer.