17 Facts About Jeffrey Vitter

Jeffrey Scott Vitter is a US computer scientist and academic administrator.

Jeffrey Vitter is a former chancellor of the University of Mississippi.

Jeffrey Vitter assumed the chancellor position on January 1,2016.

Jeffrey Vitter earned a Bachelor of Science in mathematics with highest honors from the University of Notre Dame in 1977, a Ph.

From 1980 to 1992, Jeffrey Vitter was a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

Jeffrey Vitter moved to Duke University in 1993 as professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science, and as Gilbert, Louis, and Edward Lehrman Professor.

From 2002 to 2008, Jeffrey Vitter was the Frederick Hovde Dean of the College of Science at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

From 2010 to 2015, Vitter was provost and executive vice chancellor and Roy A Roberts Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.

Jeffrey Vitter spent sabbatical leaves at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, CA; INRIA in Rocquencourt, France; Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris; Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey; Aarhus University in Aarhus, Denmark, and INRIA in Sophia Antipolis, France.

Jeffrey Vitter pushed to remove the name of a donor from a university school in response to racist online posts by the donor.

In 2019, Jeffrey Vitter stepped down as chancellor, returning to a regular faculty position.

Jeffrey Vitter retired in 2020 as Distinguished Professor Emeritus; he continues to work as a consultant and hold an adjunct professorship at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Jeffrey Vitter is a computer scientist with over 350 books, journals, and conference publications, primarily on the design and mathematical analysis of algorithms dealing with big data and data science.

Jeffrey Vitter's Google Scholar h-index is in the 70s, and he is an ISI highly cited researcher.

Jeffrey Vitter has made fundamental contributions in databases; compressed data structures and indexing; data compression, including adaptive Huffman coding, arithmetic coding, image compression, and video compression; hashing and search data structures; randomized algorithms; sampling and random variate generation; prediction and machine learning; and average-case complexity.

Vitter and his wife Sharon Weaver Vitter have three children: Jillian, J Scott Jr.

Jeffrey Vitter is a brother of former US Senator David Vitter of Louisiana and brother-in-law of United States District Court judge Wendy Vitter.