# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/scott-aaronson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:12:43.955Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/scott-aaronson"
name: "Scott Aaronson"
slug: "scott-aaronson"
description: "Scott Joel Aaronson is an American theoretical computer scientist and Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. His primary areas of research are computational complexity theory and quantum computing."
tagline: "American quantum computing researcher (1981-)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Scott_Aaronson_retouched.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1981-05-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.62175466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm11973102"
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    url:       "https://www.scottaaronson.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump