Mary Wootters

I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.

I'm interested broadly in theoretical computer science and theoretical aspects of engineering, especially concerning communication, storage, and data processing. More specifically and with some buzzwords, I work in error correcting codes, randomized algorithms, dimension reduction, matrix completion, group testing, and sparse signal processing. Here is a slightly more formal third-person biography, and here is a recent-ish CV.

​Before joining Stanford in Fall 2016, I was an NSF post-doctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University; I received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Michigan in 2014, and a B.A. in math and computer science from Swarthmore College in 2008.

I am extremely fortunate to advise the following PhD students:

• Keller Blackwell (co-advised with Dan Boneh)

• Margalit Glasgow

• Yun Liao (co-advised with John Cioffi)

• Noah Shutty (co-advised with Patrick Hayden)

...and to have worked with the following alumni!

• Reyna Hulett (PhD 2021)

• Ray Li (PhD 2022, co-advised with Jacob Fox)

• Alexandra Porter (PhD 2022, co-advised with Jure Leskovec)

• Shashwat Silas (PhD 2021)

Office: Gates 168, and occasionally Packard 253.

Email: marykw AT stanford.edu [If I have not responded to your email within one week it has gotten buried; please resend it.]