Mary Wootters

I am an Associate 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.

​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)

• Dorsa Fathollahi

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

• Reyna Hulett (PhD 2021)

• Shashwat Silas  (PhD 2021)

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

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

• Noah Shutty (PhD 2022, co-advised with Patrick Hayden)

• Yun Liao (PhD 2023, co-advised with John Cioffi)

• Margalit Glasgow (PhD 2024, co-advised with Tengyu Ma)

Office: Gates 168.  

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