Education
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
physicist university professor
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
He is best known for introducing the quantum phase estimation algorithm and the concept of the topological quantum computer while working at the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics. Foreign this work, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2008. He is also known for introducing the complexity class QMA and showing that some local Hamiltonian problems are QMA-complete.
Kitaev was educated in Russia, receiving an M.Sc from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (1986), and a Doctor of Philosophy from the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics (1989).
He served previously as a researcher (1999–2001) at Microsoft Research, a research associate (1989–1998) at the Landau Institute and a professor at Caltech (2002-present). In 2008 Kitaev was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.