{"id":25599,"date":"2022-05-31T12:22:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T16:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=25599"},"modified":"2025-09-30T08:13:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T12:13:59","slug":"andrei-ruckenstein","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/profile\/andrei-ruckenstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrei Ruckenstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"xnormaltextrun\"><span>Andrei Ruckenstein <\/span><\/span>\u00a0joined Boston University in 2007 as <span class=\"xnormaltextrun\"><span>BU\u2019s founding <\/span><\/span>Vice President and Associate Provost for Research. He is currently a professor of physics and previously was department chair. His current research is focused on problems at the interface between classical and quantum computing and, in particular, on a quantum statistical mechanics inspired approach to direct computation on encrypted data.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xnormaltextrun\"><span>He is renowned for his interdisciplinary research spanning physics, biology, and computer science. In physics, his pioneering work in correlated electron systems is widely acknowledged as fundamental to the field. His introduction of the marginal Fermi liquid theory challenged established paradigms and explained exotic properties of superconductors. His contributions outside of the field of correlated electrons includes proposing new models for gene transcription in bacteria and his current interdisciplinary research in computer science and cryptography. <\/span><\/span><span class=\"xnormaltextrun\"><span>He has been recognized both nationally and internationally with the Senior Humboldt Prize, a Fellowship in the American Physical Society, the NASA Pioneer Award &amp; NASA Patch of the International Space Station Commendation,\u00a0a Sloan Fellowship, and an ONR Young Investigator Award.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span class=\"xeop\"><span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xparagraph\"><span class=\"xnormaltextrun\"><span>In addition to his broad research contributions, Professor Ruckenstein is an impactful leader at the college and university level. \u00a0Ruckenstein was the founding president and chair of the executive committee of the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, Inc., a first-of-its-kind collaboration between Boston University, Harvard, MIT, Northeastern, and the University of Massachusetts, to address some of society\u2019s most complex technological, medical, and scientific challenges. <\/span><\/span>Earlier,\u00a0he held faculty positions at the\u00a0University of California, San Diego, and at Rutgers University,\u00a0where he was the founding Director of BioMaPS, a\u00a0university-wide initiative focused on interdisciplinary research in\u00a0biology at the interface with the mathematical and physical\u00a0sciences.\u00a0He also previously served as the director of the Superconductivity Summer School at the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy; as President of the Aspen Center for Physics; and as co-founder of the Aspen Science Center, a nonprofit organization promoting K\u201312 science education and the public understanding of science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18687,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/25599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18687"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/25599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38883,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/25599\/revisions\/38883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}