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Mary Wootters
ROLE STANFORD PROFESSORMENTIONS 1LAST SEEN AUGUST 1, 2026
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Mary Wootters is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. She is also a member of the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME) at Stanford. Her research focuses on coding theory, quantum error correction, and quantum computing, including recent work on optimization by decoded quantum interferometry.
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mention·20VC·AUGUST 1, 2026
“Mary Waters is theory professor at Stanford who responded to Jun's cold message when he had no research background, spent a full morning advising him, and connected him to his first research collaborators — a pivotal act of generosity that launched his research career.”
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