Scott Aaronson

Scott Aaronson
Aaronson in 2011
Born	Scott Joel Aaronson (1981-05-21) May 21, 1981 (age 42) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Cornell University University of California, Berkeley
Known for	Quantum Turing machine with postselection Algebrization Boson sampling
Spouse	Dana Moshkovitz
Awards	Alan T. Waterman Award PECASE Tomassoni–Chisesi Prize ACM Prize in Computing
Scientific career
Fields	Computational complexity theory, quantum computing
Institutions	University of Texas at Austin Massachusetts Institute of Technology Institute for Advanced Study University of Waterloo
Doctoral advisor	Umesh Vazirani
Website	scottaaronson.blog, www.scottaaronson.com

Scott Joel Aaronson (born May 21, 1981)^[1] is an American theoretical computer scientist and Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. His primary areas of research are computational complexity theory and quantum computing.