Andris Ambainis
IQC, University of Waterloo
QuantumWorks Researcher
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Andris Ambainis was born in Daugavpils, Latvia. He received his BSc and MSc degrees in computer science from University of Latvia in 1996 and 1997. During his studies in Latvia, Andris did research on computational complexity and learning theory. He then joined University of California, Berkeley where he developed interest in quantum computation and quantum information. Andris received his Ph.D. in computer science from UC Berkeley in 2001, supervised by Umesh Vazirani. After that, he was a postdoc at Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton and University of California, Berkeley and Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at University of Latvia. Since August 2004, Andris is Assistant Professor at Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, where he holds IQC University Professorship. His research interests include quantum algorithms, quantum complexity theory, quantum cryptography as well as classical theory of computation.