Sofya Raskhodnikova (born 1976)[1] is a Belarusian and American theoretical computer scientist. She is known for her research in sublinear-time algorithms, information privacy, property testing, and approximation algorithms, and was one of the first to study differentially private analysis of graphs. She is a professor of computer science at Boston University.[2]
Sofya Raskhodnikova | |
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Born | 1976 |
Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Boston University |
Doctoral advisor | Michael Sipser |
Notable students | Grigory Yaroslavtsev |
Raskhodnikova completed her Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003. Her dissertation, Property Testing: Theory and Applications, was supervised by Michael Sipser.[3]
After postdoctoral research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Weizmann Institute of Science, Raskhodnikova became a faculty member at Pennsylvania State University in 2007. She moved to Boston University in 2017.[2][4]
While a student at MIT, Raskhodnikova also competed in ballroom dancing.[5] She has been one of the organizers of TCS Women, a community for women in theoretical computer science.[6]