Orly Alter

Orly Alter
אורלי אלטר
Orly Alter in 2013
Born
Tel Aviv, Israel
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisImpossibility of determining the quantum wavefunction of a single system and a fundamental limit to external force detection (1999)
Doctoral advisorYoshihisa Yamamoto
Academic work
Notable ideaseigengene, multi-tensor comparative spectral decomposition

Orly Alter (Hebrew: אורלי אלטר) is an Israeli-American physicist, geneticist, and mathematician, and a USTAR associate professor of bioengineering and human genetics at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute and the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah. She has published on quantum measurement, genomic signal processing, and tensor decompositions.