Ronitt Rubinfeld


Ronitt Rubinfeld is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT and a professor of computer sciences at Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

Education

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

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 fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2014 for contributions to delegated computation, sublinear time algorithms and property testing.