Curriculum Vitae - Julia Kempe

What follows is a selection, for a complete updated version of my cv click here [ps] or here [pdf].

Employment:
 
04/07 -
Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science
Tel Aviv University
10/01 - 03/07
CNRS-researcher (tenured, titularise) at the Universite de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
Laboratoire de Recherche Informatique
tenured 10/02, CR1 since 10/05
01/05 - 04/04
MSRI and ICSI, Berkeley
Member of the program in Randomized Algorithms at MSRI and visitor to ICSI
08/03 - 08/04
University of Berkeley
Postdoctoral Fellow (on leave from CNRS)
08/02 - 12/02
MSRI, Berkeley
Member of the program in Quantum Computation


Education:

 
8/97-- 12/01 University of California, Berkeley
     Department of Mathematics
     - PhD 12/01 "Universal Noiseless Quantum Computation: Theory and Applications"
10/97 -- 4/01 Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris, France
      Departement Informatique et Réseaux
       PhD in Computer Science
        - Thèse 04/01: "Calcul Quantique: Marches aléatoires et étude d'enchevetrement" (PhD thesis: "Quantum Walks and Entanglement")
10/96 -- 7/97 Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
     Department of Physics 
     Masters in Theoretical Physics (DEA "Physique Théorique")
10/95 -- 10/96  Universite de Paris 6, ``Pierre et Marie Curie'', Paris, France
     Department of Mathematics
     Masters in Algebra (DEA "Algèbre")
7/94--2/95  University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
     Department of Physics
     Exchange student in the `Masters Program' in Theoretical Physics
1992 -- 95  University of Vienna, Austria
     Department of  Mathematics
     Undergraduate degree in Mathematics (Vordiplom 2/93)
1992 -- 95 University of Vienna, Austria
   Department of Physics
     Undergraduate degree in Physics  (Vordiplom 7/93)

Awards and Honors: 
 
2007
Alon Fellowship given for 3 years by the Higher Council of Academic Research in Israel
2006
Prix Irene Joliot-Curie de la jeune femme scientifique (best young female researcher of the year across all sciences, given by the French Ministry of Science)
2006
Medaille Bronze du CNRS (best young computer scientist of the year in France)
2002 Bernard Friedman Memorial Prize for best PhD dissertation in the applied sciences, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley 
2001 Mention "Avec Felicitations de Jury" (highest distinction) for PhD-thesis in CS at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications
2000 Charles B. Morrey, Jr. Prize, Mathematics Department (award to graduate student for outstanding research),UC Berkeley
1996-97 Fellowship of the French Government, France
1995-98 Fellow of the "Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes", (highest honor awarded to approx. 0.5% of all students across all fields), Germany
1995 Chancelor's Award for undergraduate work in Physics, University of Vienna , Austria
1994 Chancelor's Award for undergraduate work in Mathematics, University of Vienna (award for excellent coursework), Austria
1991
First Prize, Bundeswettbewerb für Mathematik (national contest), Germany
1990 First Place in the East German Mathematics Olympiade (national contest), member of the international team, East Germany
1986-92 Various first prizes in regional math, physics and chemistry olympiades, Germany (--90) and Austria (91 -- 92)

Research and Teaching:

2007
"Quantum Computing", graduate course, Tel Aviv University, Israel
2005
"Calcul Quantique", Paris-Master's program, co-teaching and co-organising the Master course, Paris, France
2004
"Calcul Quantique", Paris-Master's program, co-teaching in the Master course, Paris, France
2003
Lecturer, UC Berkeley: "Data Structures and Algorithms"
2003
"Calcul Quantique", DEA-Algorithmique, co-teaching in the Master course at ENS, Paris, France
1999 -- 2001
Research Assistant, UC Berkeley, Depts. of Mathematics and Chemistry
1998
Math16B, Head Teaching Assistant, UC Berkeley
1997
Math16A, Teaching Assistant, UC Berkeley


Grants:

ISRAEL:
I am the recipient of an Alon grant (2007-2010) of the Higher Council of Academic Research in Israel. I am the PI on an ISF grant of the Israel Science Foundation (2007-2011).
I am involved in QAP (2005-2009).

FRANCE:
I was the PI on the grant "Information Security" of the French Ministry of Science (2003-06) (ACISI "Reseaux Quantiques"). Participants were LRI (7 people) and INRIA (3 people). In the framework of this grant we employed one PhD student and one postdoc.
I was (until 4/07) co-PI in on the ANR grant of the French Ministry of Science "AlgoQP" (2005-2008).
I was a partner in QAP (2005-2009) and GdR Information et Communication Quantique and was a partner in RESQ (2002-2006), ACI Cryptologie (2002-2005) and ACI Jeune Equipe (2001-2003).



Committees/Conferences/Referee/Evaluations:

I was in the Program Committee of AQIS'07, CiE'07 and QIP'06.
I was in the Steering Committee of GdR Information et Communication Quantique from 2005-2007.
I was a co-organiser of QIP'06.


I am refereeing for:

STOC, FOCS, ICALP, RANDOM, STACS, Journal of the ACM (JACM), SIAM Journal of Computing (SICOMP), NATURE, SCIENCE, EQIS, ITW, ASPLOS, SOFSEM, LICS, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Phys. Rev. Lett., Phys. Rev. A, Phys. Rev. E, Journal of Statistical Physics, Quantum Information and Computation (QIC), Quantum Information Processing (QIP), IJQI

I was a panel member for the National Science Foundation in 2003 and evaluated proposals for the French Ministry of Science in 2003 and 2006 and the Israeli Ministry of Science in 2004.


My Coauthors:

Computer Science:
Andris Ambainis (Waterloo), Dorit Aharonov (Hebrew University), Wim van Dam (Santa Barbara), Dmitry Gavinsky (Waterloo), Sandy Irani (Irvine), Iordanis Kerenidis (LRI, France), Alexei Kitaev (Caltech), Hirotada Kobayashi (Tokyo), Keiji Matsumoto (Tokyo), Ran Raz (Weizman), Oded Regev (Tel Aviv University), Alexander Rivosh (Latvia), Umesh Vazirani (Berkeley), Thomas Vidick (ENS, France), Ronald de Wolf (CWI Amsterdam)

Mathematics:
Jesse Fern (Berkeley), Zeph Landau (City College New York), Laszlo Pyber (Hungarian Academy), Aner Shalev (Hebrew University)

Physics/Chemistry:
Dave Bacon (U Washington), Ken Brown (MIT), Guido Burkard (Basel), Andrew Childs (Caltech), Isaac Chuang (MIT), David DiVincenzo (IBM Yorktown), Mike Hsieh (Princeton), Debbie Leung (Waterloo), Daniel Lidar (USC), Seth Lloyd (MIT), Simon Myrgren (Berkeley), Michael Nielsen (Brisbane, Australia), Neil Shenvi (Yale), Christoph Simon (Geneva), Markus Storcz (Munich), Jiri Vala (Maynooth, Ireland), Gregor Weihs (Waterloo), K. Birgitta Whaley (Berkeley), Frank Wilhelm (Waterloo), Xinlan Zhou (Stanford)

Electrical Engineering:
Shankar Sastry (Berkeley), Slobodan Simic (San Jose State)


PHD(s):

I have two PHDs, in Mathematics (UC Berkeley) and Computer Science (ENST, Paris).
My research advisors in Berkeley:

Prof. Elwyn Berlekamp
Mathematics Department & CS Division
UC Berkeley       
Prof. K. Birgitta Whaley    
Department of Chemistry
UC Berkeley

and in Paris

Prof. Gerard Cohen
Departement Informatique et Reseaux
ENST, Paris, France