Ewin Tang Youngest Winner of Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics
Ewin Tang (born 2000) is a computer scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. She was named as one of 2019 Science Forbes 30 Under 30 for her work developing classical algorithms which matched the performance of the fastest known quantum algorithms, done as an undergraduate under the supervision of Scott Aaronson.
In 2017 Tang took a class on quantum computing from Scott Aaronson, who recognized her as an "unusually talented student" and became her undergraduate thesis adviser. Tang eventually developed a new classical algorithm for a matrix completion problem, motivated by applications to recommendation systems. The algorithm became the basis of her undergraduate thesis A quantum-inspired classical algorithm for recommendation systems and she received a BS in computer science and pure mathematics from UT Austin in 2018.
In 2023 Tang completed her Ph.D. in theoretical computer science at the University of Washington under the supervision of James Lee where she continued her undergraduate work on quantum-inspired classical algorithms for other problems, such as principal component analysis and low-rank stochastic regression...Wikipedia
Quantum advantage was supposed to be the ultimate proof that quantum machines could revolutionize global commerce, but 18-year-old Ewin Tang had other plans. In 2018, she presented a classical algorithm that matched the speed of a billion-dollar quantum promise, effectively "dequantizing" one of the industry's most cited commercial use cases. In this video, we go inside the Berkeley seminar room where Tang challenged elite physicists and computer scientists with her homework—an assignment that backfired in the best way possible....
Ewin Tang | |
|---|---|
| Born | 2000 (age 25–26) |
| Alma mater | University of Texas at Austin (BS) University of Washington (PhD) |
| Awards | Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize (2025) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical computer science Quantum computing |
| Doctoral advisor | James Lee |
| Other academic advisors | Scott Aaronson |
| Website | https://ewintang.com/ |
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