Benjamin E. Rossman is an American mathematician and theoretical computer scientist, specializing in computational complexity theory. He is currently an associate professor of computer science and mathematics at

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. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with B.A. in 2001 and M.A. in 2002. He received in 2011 his Ph.D. with advisor

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from MIT with thesis ''Average-Case Complexity of Detecting Cliques''. From 2010 to 2013 Rossman was a postdoc at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. From 2013 to 2016 he was an assistant professor in the Kawarabayashi Large Graph Project of the National Institute of Informatics. For the academic year 2014–2015 he was a Simons-Berkeley Research Fellow at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. He was an assistant professor in the departments of mathematics and computer science of the University of Toronto until early 2019, before joining

. In the fall of 2018 he was a visiting scientist at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. Rossman was a Sloan Research Fellow for the academic year 2017–2018. He won the

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in 2018. He was an invited speaker at the

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in 2018 in Rio de Janeiro.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rossman, Benjamin 1980 births Living people American computer scientists Theoretical computer scientists 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians 20th-century Canadian mathematicians 21st-century Canadian mathematicians University of Pennsylvania alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Academic staff of the University of Toronto Sloan Research Fellows