Eleanor Gilbert Rieffel (born 1965)^[1] is amathematician interested inquantum computing,computer vision, andcryptography. She is a senior research scientist atNASA'sAmes Research Center.^[2]

Rieffel earned her Ph.D. in 1993 from theUniversity of California, Los Angeles. Her dissertation,Groups Coarse Quasi-Isometric to the Hyperbolic Plane Cross the Real Line, concernedgeometric group theory, and was supervised by Geoffrey Mess.^[3] After working forFX Palo Alto Laboratory, she joined NASA in 2012.^[2] In 2019 she won theNASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal.^[4]

With Wolfgang Polak, Rieffel is the author of the bookQuantum Computing: A Gentle Introduction (MIT Press, 2011).^[5]

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