Julia Kempe
Julia Kempe is a Russian, French, German, and Israeli researcher in quantum computing.[1] Kempe was born in East Berlin to a Russian family.[2] She was educated in Austria, Australia, France, and the US. She is currently the Director of the Center for Data Science at NYU and Professor at the Courant Institute [3]
Education and career
Kempe grew up in East Berlin. She moved to Vienna in 1990 when she was 17. [4] She did her undergraduate studies in mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna from 1992 to 1995, with a year as an exchange student in physics at the University of Technology Sydney. She then earned two Master of Advanced Studies (DEA) degrees in France: one in mathematics in 1996 from Pierre and Marie Curie University and another in 1997 in physics from the École normale supérieure. She completed two doctorates in 2001. The dissertation for her Ph.D. in computer science from the École nationale supérieure des télécommunications was entitled Quantum Computing: Random Walks and Entanglement, and was supervised by Gérard Cohen. Her second Ph.D., in mathematics, was from the University of California, Berkeley, with a dissertation entitled Universal Noiseless Quantum Computation: Theory and Applications and was jointly supervised by Elwyn Berlekamp and chemist K. Birgitta Whaley.[5]
She joined CNRS at the University of Paris-Sud in 2001 (overlapping with postdoctoral studies at Berkeley and the Berkeley Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), joined the Tel Aviv University faculty in 2007[6], and moved her CNRS position from Paris-Sud to Paris Diderot in 2010.[5]. She became Director of the Center of Data Science at NYU and a Professor at the Courant Institute in September 2018.[3]
Awards and honors
In 2006, Kempe won the bronze medal of CNRS and the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize of the French government.[2][7] In 2009 she won the Krill Prize of the Wolf Foundation,[8] and in 2010 she won the Trophée des femmes en or (English: "Women in Gold" trophy ) for her research.[1] She became a knight in the National Order of Merit.[5] in 2010. In 2018, she was elected to the Academia Europaea.[9]
Selected publications
- DiVincenzo, D. P.; Bacon, D.; Kempe, J.; Burkard, G.; Whaley, K. B. (2000), "Universal quantum computation with the exchange interaction", Nature, 408 (6810): 339–342, arXiv:quant-ph/0005116, Bibcode:2000Natur.408..339D, doi:10.1038/35042541, PMID 11099036, S2CID 4326729.
- Kempe, J.; Bacon, D.; Lidar, D. A.; Whaley, K. B. (2001), "Theory of decoherence-free fault-tolerant universal quantum computation", Physical Review A, 63 (4): 042307, arXiv:quant-ph/0004064, Bibcode:2001PhRvA..63d2307K, doi:10.1103/physreva.63.042307, S2CID 44200695.
- Kempe, J. (2003), "Quantum random walks: An introductory overview", Contemporary Physics, 44 (4): 307–327, arXiv:quant-ph/0303081, Bibcode:2003ConPh..44..307K, doi:10.1080/00107151031000110776, S2CID 17300331.
- Shenvi, Neil; Kempe, Julia; Whaley, K. Birgitta (2003), "Quantum random-walk search algorithm", Physical Review A, 67 (5): 052307, arXiv:quant-ph/0210064, Bibcode:2003PhRvA..67e2307S, doi:10.1103/physreva.67.052307, S2CID 8688989.
- Aharonov, Dorit; van Dam, Wim; Kempe, Julia; Landau, Zeph; Lloyd, Seth; Regev, Oded (2007), "Adiabatic quantum computation is equivalent to standard quantum computation", SIAM Journal on Computing, 37 (1): 166–194, arXiv:quant-ph/0405098, doi:10.1137/S0097539705447323, MR 2306288. Revised, SIAM Review 50 (4): 755–787, 2008, MR2460803
References
- ^ a b Julia Kempe élue Femme en Or de la recherche 2010 (in French), CNRS, June 8, 2010, retrieved 2017-07-20
- ^ a b Chairopoulos, Patricia (July 2007), "Julia Kempe, Quantum Mechanic", CNRS International Magazine, vol. 7
- ^ a b Dr. Julia Kempe appointed as Director of the NYU Center for Data Science, NYU Center for Data Science, 2018-04-26, retrieved 2018-11-24
- ^ Pain, Elisabeth (May 11, 2007), "Still learning", Science, doi:10.1126/science.caredit.a0700067
- ^ a b c Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2018-10-15
- ^ Prof. Julia Kempe, Raymond & Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, retrieved 2017-07-20
- ^ Cinquième édition du Prix Irène Joliot-Curie (in French), Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur de la Recherche et de l'Innovation, retrieved 2017-07-20
- ^ Dr. Julia Kempe Winner of Krill Prize in Science - 2009, Wolf Foundation, retrieved 2017-07-20
- ^ "Julia Kempe", Member profiles, Academia Europaea, retrieved 2020-10-08
- Living people
- 21st-century German mathematicians
- German physicists
- German computer scientists
- French mathematicians
- French physicists
- French computer scientists
- Israeli mathematicians
- Israeli physicists
- Israeli computer scientists
- Women mathematicians
- French women physicists
- German women physicists
- Israeli women physicists
- French women computer scientists
- German women computer scientists
- German people of Russian descent
- People from East Berlin
- University of Vienna alumni
- Pierre and Marie Curie University alumni
- École Normale Supérieure alumni
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- Knights of the National Order of Merit (France)
- Quantum information scientists
- Members of Academia Europaea