Biography:Catherine McGeoch

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Short description: American computer scientist

Catherine Cole McGeoch is an American computer scientist specializing in empirical algorithmics and heuristics for NP-hard problems.[1] She is currently Beitzel Professor in Technology and Society at Amherst College.[2] She has been the Editor in Chief of ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics and was a member of the ACM Publications Board.[3]

Biography

McGeoch graduated summa cum laude from Butler University in 1981. She then earned her M.S. (1983) and her Ph.D.(1986) from Carnegie Mellon University, supervised by Jon Bentley.[4] She is the author of A Guide to Experimental Algorithmics (ISBN:9781107001732) and Adiabatic Quantum Computation and Quantum Annealing: Theory and Practice (ISBN:9781627053358).

In 2013, she published one of the first detailed benchmarks of D-Wave's Quantum Computer versus conventional software. Her work was featured in an Amherst College press release and was subsequently cited in numerous media outlets, including The New York Times , The Economist and The New Yorker.[5][6][7][8] Starting in May 2014 she took a leave of absence from Amherst College to work full-time for D-Wave.[9]

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