Jennifer Tour Chayes
Jennifer Tour Chayes | |
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Thesis | The Inverse Problem, Plaquette Percolation and a Generalized Potts Model (1983) |
Doctoral advisor | Elliott H. Lieb Michael Aizenman |
Jennifer Tour Chayes is dean of the college of computing, data science, and society at the
Chayes is best known for her work on
Chayes joined Microsoft Research in 1997, when she co-founded the Theory Group. She received her Ph.D. in mathematical physics at Princeton University in 1983. She is affiliate professor of mathematics and physics at the University of Washington, and was a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1987 to 2001. She is an author on almost 120 scientific papers and the inventor on more than 25 patents.
Early life and education
Chayes was born in New York City[1] and grew up in White Plains, New York, the child of Iranian immigrants. She received her B.A. in Biology and Physics from Wesleyan University in 1979 where she graduated first in her class. She received her Ph.D. in Mathematical Physics at Princeton University. She did her postdoctoral work in the Mathematics and Physics departments at Harvard and Cornell.
Career
She became a tenured mathematics professor at UCLA in 1987. While she was on sabbatical at the
Prior to joining Berkeley, Chayes was Managing Director of both
Affiliations
Chayes serves on numerous institute boards, advisory committees and editorial boards, including the
Chayes is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Fields Institute, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the American Mathematical Society, as well as a National Associate of the National Academies. The Association for Women in Mathematics has included her in the 2020 class of AWM Fellows for "pioneering the way for women in the mathematical sciences to have leading technical roles in the high-tech industry; for extraordinary leadership and mentoring on behalf of women in the mathematical sciences".[10] She has been the recipient of many leadership awards, including one of the 2012 Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Awards. In 2019 she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.[11]
Chayes is featured in the Notable Women in Computing cards.[12]
Awards and honors
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship (1989)[citation needed]
- Member of Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (1994–95, 1997)
- Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (1998)[13]
- American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow (2006)
- Association for Computing Machinery Fellow (2010)[14]
- American Mathematical Society Fellow (2012)[15]
- Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award (2012) [16]
- John von Neumann Lecture Prize(2015)
- Leiden University honorary doctorate (2016)[17]
- National Academy of Sciences member (2019)[11]
Personal life
Chayes married Christian Borgs in 1993 and was previously married to Lincoln Chayes whom she met at Wesleyan.[citation needed]
See also
References
- ^ a b c "Jennifer Tour Chayes CURRICULUM VITAE" (PDF). Microsoft Research. April 2014. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
- ^ a b 2012 Women to Watch: Jennifer Chayes, Massachusetts High Tech. By Scott Pickering. 20 April 2012. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
- ^ "Lab of Ideas". Wesleyan Magazine. 15 June 2010. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
- ^ Microsoft Taps Yahoo Scientists for New York Research Lab, NYT. By Steve Lohr. Fifth, tenth and eleventh paragraphs. Retrieved 3 May 2012.
- ^ Microsoft Opens New York Research Lab, Hires Mainly Yahoo Researchers, CSO. By John Ribeiro. 3 May 2012. Retrieved 3 May 2012.
- S2CID 9954684
- PMID 17395721
- ^ Chayes, Jennifer; R. Andersen; C. Borgs; U.Feige; A. Flaxman; A. Kalai; V. Mirrokni; M. Tennenholtz (2008). "Trust-based recommendation systems: An axiomatic approach". Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web (WWW).
- S2CID 15230349
- ^ 2020 Class of AWM Fellows, Association for Women in Mathematics, retrieved 2019-11-08
- ^ a b "National Academy of Sciences Elects Members and Foreign Associates; Historic Number of Women Elected to Its Membership", News from the National Academy of Sciences, May 2, 2019
- ^ "Notable Women in Computing".
- ^ Chayes, Jennifer T. (1998). "Finite-size scaling in percolation". Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. III. pp. 113–122.
- ^ ACM Names 41 Fellows from World's Leading Institutions: Many Innovations Made in Areas Critical to Global Competitiveness Archived 2012-04-28 at the Wayback Machine, ACM, December 7, 2010, retrieved 2011-11-20.
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-10.
- ^ Jennifer Chayes, 2012 Winner of the ABIE Award Winner for Leadership, retrieved 2020-11-23
- ^ University of Leiden news retrieved 2017-06-26