Elham Kashefi

Elham Kashefi
Kashefi in 2003
EducationAboureihan High School
Alma materSharif University of Technology (BSc, MSc)
Imperial College London (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsQuantum cloud
Quantum cryptography
InstitutionsUniversity of Edinburgh
University of Oxford
Sorbonne University
ThesisComplexity Analysis and Semantics for Quantum Computation (2003)
Doctoral advisorVlatko Vedral
Steffen van Bakel
Websitewww.inf.ed.ac.uk/people/staff/Elham_Kashefi.html

Elham Kashefi (Persian: الهام کاشفی) is a Professor of Computer Science and Personal Chair in quantum computing at the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, and a Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) researcher at the Sorbonne University. She is known as one of the inventors of blind quantum computing. Her work has included contributions to quantum cryptography, verification of quantum computing, and cloud quantum computing.