{"id":91,"date":"2024-03-05T16:06:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T16:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/ise\/?page_id=91"},"modified":"2025-07-25T10:20:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T14:20:57","slug":"rebekah-herrman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/ise\/faculty\/rebekah-herrman\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebekah Herrman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"profilePageTitle\">Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<p><!-- Right Column --><\/p>\n<div class=\"one-third column pull-right\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full profileImage wp-image-356\" src=\"\/ise\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/03\/Herrman.jpg\" alt=\"Rebekah Herrman\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"profilePageCard\">\n<h3 class=\"quietHeading\">Contact Information<\/h3>\n<p>519 John D. Tickle Engineering Building,<br \/>\n817 Neyland Drive,<br \/>\nKnoxville, TN 37996-2315<\/p>\n<p><b>Phone<\/b><br \/>\n865-974-6398<\/p>\n<p><b>Email<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:rherrma2@utk.edu\">rherrma2@utk.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/rebekahherrman\/home\">Personal Website<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"quietHeading\">Research Areas<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Quantum Optimization Algorithms<\/li>\n<li>Graph Theory Games<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- Left Column --><\/p>\n<div class=\"two-thirds column \">\n<p><!-- Biography --><\/p>\n<h2>Biography<\/h2>\n<p>Rebekah Herrman is an Assistant Professor in the Industrial and Systems Engineering department at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. She received her PhD in mathematics in 2020 from the University of Memphis with a focus in combinatorics. While there, she studied graph theory games and optimization problems on graphs. She is a class of 2022 DARPA FORWARD Riser, a 22-23 APS Career Mentoring Fellow, and her work is currently supported by the National Science Foundation. Aside from graph theory, her current research interest is quantum machine learning applied to combinatorial optimization problems.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Education --><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"quietHeading\">Education<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>BS Mathematics and Physics, Christian Brothers University<\/li>\n<li>MS Mathematics The University of Memphis<\/li>\n<li>PhD Mathematics, The University of Memphis, adviser B\u00e9la Bollob\u00e1s<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><!-- Research Publications --><\/p>\n<h2>Research Publications<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Herrman, R., Ostrowski, J., Humble, T. S., &amp; Siopsis, G. (2021). Lower bounds on circuit depth of the quantum approximate optimization algorithm.\u00a0<em>Quantum Information Processing<\/em>,\u00a0<em>20<\/em>(2), 1-17.<\/li>\n<li>Herrman, R., &amp; Humble, T. S. (2019). Continuous-time quantum walks on dynamic graphs.\u00a0<em>Physical Review A<\/em>,\u00a0<em>100<\/em>(1), 012306.<\/li>\n<li>Herrman, R., &amp; van Hintum, P. (2021). The (t, r) broadcast domination number of some regular graphs.\u00a0<em>Discrete Applied Mathematics<\/em>,\u00a0<em>289<\/em>, 270-280.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=CGJR52sAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao\">https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=CGJR52sAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor Contact Information 519 John D. 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