Rebekah Herrman

Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering

University of Tennessee Knoxville

Dr. Rebekah Herrman is an Assistant Professor in the Industrial and Systems Engineering department at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. She received her Ph.D. in mathematics in 2020 from the University of Memphis with a focus in combinatorics. While there, she studied graph theory games and optimization problems on graphs. She received her M.S. in mathematics in 2017 from the University of Memphis and her B.S. in mathematics and physics in 2014 from Christian Brothers University. 

The above image is from  “Globally optimizing QAOA circuit depth for constrained optimization problems. Algorithms 2021, 14, 294 (Herrman, R., Treffert, L., Ostrowski, J., Lotshaw, P.C., Humble, T.S., Siopsis, G.).

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