Assistant Professor, Georgetown University

Justin Thaler has been an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University since 2016. Prior to joining Georgetown, he spent two years as a Research Scientist at Yahoo Labs in New York, and before that he was a Research Fellow at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2013. His research interests include algorithms for massive data sets, quantum computing, cryptography, and complexity theory. His work has been recognized with a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation.