Ronitt Rubinfeld is a professor of electrical engineering and

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Education

Rubinfeld graduated from the

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with a BSE in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Following that, she received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley under the supervision of

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Research

Rubinfeld's research interests include randomized and sublinear time algorithms. In particular, her work focuses on what can be understood about data by looking at only a very small portion of it.

Awards and honors

She gave an invited lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2006. She became a

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of the

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in 2014 for ''contributions to delegated computation, sublinear time algorithms and property testing''. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in 2020 and a member of the

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in 2022.

References

External links

Rubinfeld's MIT page
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