Virginia Vassilevska Williams

Virginia Vassilevska Williams
Virginia Vassilevska Williams
	Vassilevska Williams at Oberwolfach, 2012
Nationality	Bulgarian American
Alma mater	Carnegie Mellon University (PhD, 2008); Caltech (BS, 2003);
Known for	Matrix multiplication; Graph algorithms; Dynamic algorithms; Fine-grained complexity theory;
	Scientific career
Fields	Complexity theory; Algorithms;
Institutions	MIT; Stanford; UC Berkeley; Institute for Advanced Study;
Doctoral advisor	Guy Blelloch

Virginia Vassilevska Williams (née Virginia Panayotova Vassilevska) is a theoretical computer scientist and mathematician known for her research in computational complexity theory and algorithms. She is currently the Steven and Renee Finn Career Development Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is notable for her breakthrough results in fast matrix multiplication, for her work on dynamic algorithms, and for helping to develop the field of fine-grained complexity.