Ronald de Wolf

Full Name
Prof.dr. R.M. de Wolf
Email
Ronald.de.Wolf@cwi.nl
Phone
+31 20 592 4078
Room
L234
Department(s)
Algorithms and Complexity
Function(s)
Scientific Staff Member, Group leader, Professor - Universiteit van Amsterdam
Homepage
http://homepages.cwi.nl/~rdewolf/
Ronald de Wolf

Biography

Ronald de Wolf (1973) studied computer science and philosophy at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, with a focus on logic-based machine learning. He obtained his PhD in 2001 from the University of Amsterdam and CWI on a thesis about quantum computation and communication complexity, advised by Harry Buhrman and Paul Vitanyi. Subsequently he spent a postdoctoral year at UC Berkeley. Currently he is a senior researcher at CWI and full professor at the University of Amsterdam.

Publications

All publications

Awards

  • Gödel Prize 2023 (2023)
  • ACM STOC 10-year Test of Time Award (2022)
  • STOC'12 Best Paper Award : Semidefinite Extended Formulations: Exponential Separation and Strong Lower Bounds. In 44th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 12) (2012)
  • Cor Baayen Award (2003)

Professional activities

  • Professor: Universiteit van Amsterdam [UvA]
  • Speaker: Keynote speaker: The potential impact of quantum computers on society, YQIS summer school, Vienna
  • Speaker: Invited speaker: Quantum algorithms for optimization. European Quantum Technology Conference, Grenoble
  • Speaker: Invited speaker: Quantum algorithms (introduction). Deutsche Physik Gesellschaft (DPG) Fall Meeting, Freiburg
  • Speaker: Invited speaker: Graphs sparsification: efficient algorithms and applications. Heilbronn Annual Conference, Bristol
  • Speaker: Invited speaker: Quantum Algorithms For Optimization. Quantum colloquium of the Simons Institute, Berkeley
  • Speaker: Invited speaker: Quantum computing. Perspectives in Mathematical Sciences series, Chennai Mathematical Institute
  • Speaker: Invited speaker: Quantum machine learning from a theoretical perspective. Cambridge-Warwick Quantum Computing Colloquium
  • Speaker: Invited speaker: The potential impact of quantum algorithms on society. In seminar series "Quantum Algorithms" of ML4Q (Aachen, Julich, Cologne), online
  • Speaker: Invited speaker: The potential impact of quantum algorithms on society. Seminar at University of Trento
  • Speaker: Invited speaker: Influence in Completely Bounded Block-multilinear Forms and Classical Simulation of Quantum Algorithms. QIP'23, Gent, Belgium
  • Speaker: Invited speaker: Generating k EPR-pairs from an n-party resource state. QIP'23, Gent, Belgium
  • Speaker: Invited speaker: Quantum Algorithms and Lower Bounds for Linear Regression with Norm Constraints. 50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 23), Paderborn, Germany
  • Speaker: Invited speaker: Improved Quantum Boosting. 31st European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 23), CWI Amsterdam
  • Speaker: Invited speaker: Theoretical aspects of quantum machine learning. Seminar at ISTA Vienna
  • Speaker: Invited speaker: Quantum algorithms for optimization. Seminar at Zuse Institute (ZIB), Berlin, Germany
  • Speaker: Invited speaker: Quantum algorithms for optimization. YQIS'24 conference, Paris, France
  • Speaker: The applications of quantum computers. Masterclass Quantum Computing at the Amsterdam Business School of UvA, Dec 12, 2024
  • Committee member: Random 2024
  • Committee member: ERC Starting Grant Panel (PE6), EU

Grants

  • ERC Consolidator Grant (2013)
  • NWO TOP-grant Samen met Monique Laurent en Nikhil Bansal (2013)
  • Vidi Innovational Research Grant NWO (2008)
  • Veni Innovational Research Grant NWO (2005)

Current projects with external funding

  • Groeifonds - QDNL / KAT 1 (Groeifonds)

Courses