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Lila FontesAssociate ProfessorComputer Science Department Swarthmore College 500 College Ave Swarthmore, PA 19081 |
email: fontes at cs.swarthmore.edu office: Martin 210 phone: 610-690-5313 office hours: Th 12:30-2:30 and by appointment |
I am an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Swarthmore College I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Université Paris 7 Diderot. I completed my Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in computer science from the University of Toronto, as a member of the theory group, working under the supervision of Stephen A. Cook and Toniann Pitassi. I did my undergraduate work at Harvard in mathematics, focusing on logic under the supervision of Peter Koellner.
My research area is theoretical computer science, and I am interested in problems involving privacy and communication. More generally, I enjoy using math to explore the limits of computation, which spans a broad range of interests including algorithm design and analysis, proving impossibility results and lower bounds, testing and implementing theoretical results, and solving puzzles.
For the fall 2025 I am teaching CS91t: Communication theory.