| Toniann Pitassi | |
|---|---|
| Residence | Toronto, Canada |
| Citizenship | Canadian |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Toronto |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto |
| Doctoral advisor | Stephen Cook |
Toniann Pitassi is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist specializing in complexity theory.
Pitassi earned bachelors and masters degrees at Pennsylvania State University before moving to the University of Toronto for her doctoral studies; she earned her Ph.D. in 1992 from Toronto under the supervision of Stephen Cook. After postdoctoral studies at the University of California, San Diego and faculty positions at the University of Pittsburgh and University of Arizona, she returned to Toronto in 2001, and is now a professor in the University of Toronto Department of Computer Science and University of Toronto Department of Mathematics.[1][2]
She was an invited speaker at International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin in 1998.[3] She is the program chair for the 2012 Symposium on Theory of Computing.[4]