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Sofya Raskhodnikova

b. 1976

Belarusian and American computer scientist

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Born 1976. Sofya Raskhodnikova is a computer scientist.

Sofya Raskhodnikova (born 1976) is an American theoretical computer scientist. She is known for her research in sublinear-time algorithms, information privacy, property testing, and approximation algorithms, and was one of the first to study differentially private analysis of graphs. She is a professor of computer science at Boston University.

Education and career Raskhodnikova completed her Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003. Her dissertation, Property Testing: Theory and Applications, was supervised by Michael Sipser.

After postdoctoral research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Weizmann Institute of Science, Raskhodnikova became a faculty member at Pennsylvania State University in 2007. She moved to Boston University in 2017.

Other activities While a student at MIT, Raskhodnikova also competed in ballroom dancing. She has been one of the organizers of TCS Women, a community for women in theoretical computer science.

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1976
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University
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Boston University

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Belarusian and American computer scientist

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