Ronald de Wolf, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Ronald de Wolf

Date of Birth: 28-Jan-1973

Place of Birth: Zaandam, North Holland, Netherlands

Profession: computer scientist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Ronald Michiel de Wolf (born 1973) is a Dutch Computer Scientist, currently a Senior Researcher at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) and a Professor at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). His research interests are on Quantum computing, Quantum information, Coding theory, and Computational complexity theory. His scientific contributions include the first exponential separation between one-way quantum and classical communication protocols for a partial Boolean function, and a proof that a locally decodable code (LDC) with 2 classical queries need exponential length.
This suggested the use of techniques from quantum computing to prove results in "classical" computer science. De Wolf and his coauthors received the Best Paper Award at the Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) in 2012.