Alexei Kitaev

Alexei Kitaev received an M.S. (1986) from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and a Ph.D. (1989) from the L.D. Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics in Chernogolovka, Russia. He is a professor of theoretical physics and computer science at the California Institute of Technology. Kitaev served previously as a researcher (1999-2001) at Microsoft Research and as a research associate (1989-1998) at the Landau Institute.