Scott Aaronson — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin.
Founding Director of the Quantum Information Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
Primary research areas include computational complexity theory and quantum computing.
Founder of the Complexity Zoo wiki, which catalogs computational complexity classes.
Worked at OpenAI on theoretical foundations of AI safety for two years.
Earned his PhD in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004.
Received his BSc in computer science from Cornell University in 2000.

Biography

Scott Joel Aaronson is an American theoretical computer scientist and the Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He serves as the founding director of UT Austin's Quantum Information Center. His primary areas of research encompass computational complexity theory and quantum computing. From 2022, he worked at OpenAI for two years, focusing on the theoretical foundations of AI safety.