Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Advises several PhD students including Keller Blackwell (co-advised with Jeongwan Haah), Dorsa Fathollahi, Ching-Fang Li (co-advised with Ayfer Ozgur), and has worked with alumni such as Reyna Hulett (PhD 2021), Shashwat Silas (PhD 2021), Ray Li (PhD 2022, co-advised with Jacob Fox).
Education
Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Michigan in 2014; B.A. in Math and Computer Science from Swarthmore College in 2008; NSF post-doctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University before joining Stanford University in Fall 2016.
Background
Broadly interested in theoretical computer science and theoretical aspects of engineering, especially concerning communication, storage, and data processing. Specific research areas include error correcting codes, randomized algorithms, dimension reduction, matrix completion, group testing, and sparse signal processing.
Miscellany
Office: CoDa W216; Contact email: marykw@stanford.edu; Personal interests and hobbies not mentioned.