Eleanor Rieffel

Eleanor Gilbert Rieffel (born 1965)[1] is a mathematician interested in quantum computing, computer vision, and cryptography. She is a senior research scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center.[2]

Rieffel earned her Ph.D. in 1993 from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her dissertation, Groups Coarse Quasi-Isometric to the Hyperbolic Plane Cross the Real Line, concerned geometric group theory, and was supervised by Geoffrey Mess.[3] After working for FX Palo Alto Laboratory, she joined NASA in 2012.[2] In 2019 she won the NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal.[4]

With Wolfgang Polak, Rieffel is the author of the book Quantum Computing: A Gentle Introduction (MIT Press, 2011).[5]

References

1. Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2018-12-01.
2. Eleanor G. Rieffel, NASA, retrieved 2018-11-18
3. Eleanor Rieffel at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
4. NASA Ames Astrogram - September 2019 retrieved 2019-10-24.
5. Reviews of Quantum Computing: A Gentle Introduction:
   • Hellwig, K.-E., zbMATH, Zbl 1221.81003
   • Scarani, Valerio (February 2012), Physics Today, 65 (2): 53–55, Bibcode:2012PhT....65b..53S, doi:10.1063/pt.3.1442
   • Vestal, Donald L. (August 2012), "Review", MAA Reviews
   • Sgarbas, Kyriakos N. (June 2013), ACM SIGACT News, 44 (2): 31–35, doi:10.1145/2491533.2491543, MR 3095941, S2CID 17668642

External links

• Eleanor Rieffel publications indexed by Google Scholar