Rate My Professor Achim Kempf

Achim Kempf is Professor and Dieter Schwarz Chair in the Physics of Information and AI in the Department of Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics, at the University of Waterloo, with a cross-appointment to the Department of Physics and Astronomy. He leads the Physics of Information and AI Lab and holds associate memberships in the Institute for Quantum Computing and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, in addition to being a founding member of the Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics, a member of the Waterloo Artificial Intelligence Institute, the Mathematics of Data Science and Machine Learning Research Group, and the Guelph-Waterloo Physics Institute. Born in Heidelberg, Germany, Kempf pursued undergraduate studies at the Universities of Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, and Munich, supported by scholarships from the Land Baden-Württemberg (LGFG) and the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. He obtained his PhD from the University of Munich. Following his doctorate, he held postdoctoral positions at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) at the University of Cambridge, where he served as a stipendiary College Research Fellow, and at the Institute for Fundamental Theory at the University of Florida. Kempf has been a faculty member at the University of Waterloo since 2001.