About the Author(s)

Andris Ambainis Department of Combinatorics and Optimization Faculty of Mathematics 200 University Avenue West Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada ambainis[ta]math[tod]uwaterloo[tod]ca http://math.uwaterloo.ca/~ambainis
Andris Ambainis was born in Daugavpils, Latvia. After undergraduate studies at the University of Latvia, he received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2001, supervised by Umesh Vazirani. Andris joined the University of Waterloo in August 2004. His research interests include quantum algorithms, quantum complexity theory, quantum cryptography as well as the classical theory of computation.