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:

• Margalit Glasgow

• Reyna Hulett

• Ray Li (co-advised with Jacob Fox)

• Yun Liao (co-advised with John Cioffi)

• Alexandra Porter (co-advised with Jure Leskovec)

• Noah Shutty (co-advised with Patrick Hayden)

• Shashwat Silas

Office: Gates 468 and occasionally Packard 253 [Currently working from home due to COVID-19].

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