Benjamin E. Rossman is an American mathematician and theoretical computer scientist, specializing in

computational complexity theory In theoretical computer science and mathematics, computational complexity theory focuses on classifying computational problems according to their resource usage, and explores the relationships between these classifications. A computational problem ...

. He is currently an associate professor of computer science and mathematics at

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Biography

He graduated from the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

with B.A. in 2001 and M.A. in 2002. He received in 2011 his Ph.D. with advisor

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from

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with thesis ''Average-Case Complexity of Detecting Cliques''. From 2010 to 2013 Rossman was a postdoc at the

Tokyo Institute of Technology The Tokyo Institute of Technology () was a public university in Meguro, Tokyo, Japan. It merged with Tokyo Medical and Dental University to form the Institute of Science Tokyo on 1 October 2024. The Tokyo Institute of Technology was a De ...

. From 2013 to 2016 he was an assistant professor in the Kawarabayashi Large Graph Project of the

National Institute of Informatics The is a Japanese research institute located in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. NII was established in April 2000 for the purpose of advancing the study of Informatics (academic field), informatics. This institute also works on creatin ...

. For the academic year 2014–2015 he was a Simons-Berkeley Research Fellow at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. He was an assistant professor in the departments of mathematics and computer science of the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university whose main campus is located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded by ...

until early 2019, before joining

. In the fall of 2018 he was a visiting scientist at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. Rossman was a Sloan Research Fellow for the academic year 2017–2018. He won the

Aisenstadt Prize The André Aisenstadt Prize recognizes a young Canadian mathematician's outstanding achievement in pure or applied mathematics. It has been awarded annually since 1992 (except in 1994, when no prize was given) by the Centre de Recherches Mathémat ...

in 2018. He was an invited speaker at the

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in 2018 in

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Selected publications

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rossman, Benjamin 1980 births Living people American theoretical computer scientists 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians 20th-century Canadian mathematicians 21st-century Canadian mathematicians University of Pennsylvania alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Academic staff of the University of Toronto Sloan Research Fellows