I'm an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, affiliated with CSAIL. My research interests center around the capabilities and limits of quantum computers, and computational complexity theory more generally.
Book
Personal
Research
Pedagogy
- 6.045 Automata, Computability, and Complexity / GITCS (MIT, Spring 2013)
- 6.845 Quantum Complexity Theory (MIT, Fall 2012)
- 6.045 Automata, Computability, and Complexity / GITCS (MIT, Spring 2012)
- 6.893 Philosophy and Theoretical Computer Science (MIT, Fall 2011)
- 6.045 Automata, Computability, and Complexity / GITCS (MIT, Spring 2011)
- 6.845 Quantum Complexity Theory (MIT, Fall 2010)
- 6.045 Automata, Computability, and Complexity / GITCS (MIT, Spring 2010)
- 6.045 Automata, Computability, and Complexity / GITCS (MIT, Spring 2009)
- 6.896 Quantum Complexity Theory (MIT, Fall 2008)
- 6.089 Great Ideas In Theoretical Computer Science (MIT, Spring 2008)
- Quantum Computing Since Democritus (University of Waterloo, Fall 2006)
- Teaching Statement
- The Complexity Zoo
Students
- Andrew Drucker: PhD, graduated August 2012, now at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
- Michael Forbes: PhD, in progress
- Alex Arkhipov: PhD, in progress
- Adam Bouland: PhD, in progress
- Arturs Backurs: PhD, in progress
Postdocs
Contact
- MIT 32-G638
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617)-833-2349
Fax: (617)-258-8682
The best way to reach me is via email:
aaronson at csail dot mit dot edu
Warning: If you schedule an appointment with me before lunchtime, you might want to email me a reminder the night before!