Julia Kempe

Julia Kempe (* 1973 in East Berlin ) is a German mathematician , physicist , computer scientist and university professor . She conducts research in the fields of data science , machine learning and quantum computers .

life and work

Kempe grew up in East Berlin and moved to Vienna with her parents of Russian descent in 1990. From 1992 to 1995 she studied mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna , where she received a bachelor's degree in both subjects . In the winter semester 1994/95 she studied as part of a graduate program in the Department of Physics at the University of Technology, Sydney in Australia . From 1995 to 1996 she studied mathematics at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, where she obtained a master’s degree in 1996 . She then studied physics at the École normal supérieure (Paris) , where she received a master's degree in theoretical physics. She then completed her doctorate in Computer Science with Gerard Denis Cohen at Télécom ParisTech in 2001 with the dissertation: Quantum Computing: Random Walks and Entanglement, for which she received the award tres honorable avec f `elicitations du jury ´. At the same time, she was an assistant at the University of California at Berkeley from 1997 to 2001 , where she received her doctorate in mathematics with Elwyn Berlekamp and K. Birgitta Whaley in 2001 with the dissertation: Universal Noiseless Quantum Computation: Theory and Applications. This dissertation was awarded the Bernard Friedman Memorial Prize in Applied Mathematics and the Morrey Award in Mathematics. She then did research as a postdoc at the University of California until 2004, as an assistant professor from 2007 to 2009 and as an associate professor at the School of Computer Science at the University of Tel Aviv until 2014 . At the same time, she conducted research from 2001 to 2010 at the Computer Science Department of the Universite de Paris-Sud, where she completed her habilitation in 2010 with the thesis: "Quantum Computation". From 2010 to 2018 she was CNRS Senior Researcher at the University of Paris VII . In 2018 she became Director of the Center for Data Science and Professor of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University .

Prizes and awards (selection)

1986 - 1992: Various regional first prizes in Mathematics , Physics and Chemistry Olympiads in Germany (1986 - 1989) and Austria (1990 - 1992)
1990: 1st place in the East German Mathematics Olympiad
1991: 1st place in the federal mathematics competition
1994: Chancellor's Award in Mathematics, University of Vienna
1995: Chancellor's Award in Physics, University of Vienna
1996 - 1997: Fellow of the French Government, France
1996 - 1998: Fellow of the German National Academic Foundation
2000: Charles B. Morrey, Jr. Prize, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley
2002: Bernard Friedman Memorial Prize, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley
2006: Medal de Bronze du CNRS ´
2006: Irène Joliot-Curie Prize, France
2006: Alon Fellowship, Higher Council for Academic Studies in Israel
2009: Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research, Wolf foundation
2010: Femme en Or de la Recherche, France
2010: Ordre national du Mérite , France
2018: Academia Europaea

Publications (selection)

DiVincenzo, DP; Bacon, D .; Kempe, J .; Burkard, G .; Whaley, KB: "Universal quantum computation with the exchange interaction", Nature, 408 (6810): 339-342, 2000
Kempe, J .; Bacon, D .; Lidar, DA; Whaley, KB: "Theory of decoherence-free fault-tolerant universal quantum computation", Physical Review A, 63 (4), 2001
Kempe, J .: "Quantum random walks: An introductory overview", Contemporary Physics, 44 (4): 307-327, 2003
Shenvi, Neil; Kempe, Julia; Whaley, K. Birgitta: "Quantum random-walk search algorithm", Physical Review A, 67 (5), 2003
Aharonov, Dorit; van Dam, Wim; Kempe, Julia; Landau, Zeph; Lloyd, Seth; Regev, Oded: "Adiabatic quantum computation is equivalent to standard quantum computation", SIAM Journal on Computing, 37 (1): 166-194, 2007

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personal data
SURNAME	Kempe, Julia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German mathematician, physicist, computer scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	1973
PLACE OF BIRTH	East Berlin