19 Facts About Jennifer Chayes

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Jennifer Tour Chayes is Associate Provost of the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society and Dean of the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Jennifer Chayes is best known for her work on phase transitions in discrete mathematics and computer science, structural and dynamical properties of self-engineered networks, and algorithmic game theory.

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Jennifer Chayes's is considered one of the world's experts in the modeling and analysis of dynamically growing graphs.

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Jennifer Chayes joined Microsoft Research in 1997, when she co-founded the Theory Group.

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Jennifer Chayes's 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.

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Jennifer Chayes's is an author on almost 120 scientific papers and the inventor on more than 25 patents.

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Jennifer Chayes was born in New York City and grew up in White Plains, New York, the child of Iranian immigrants.

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Jennifer Chayes's received her B A in Biology and Physics from Wesleyan University in 1979 where she graduated first in her class.

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Jennifer Chayes's did her postdoctoral work in the Mathematics and Physics departments at Harvard and Cornell.

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Jennifer Chayes's became a tenured mathematics professor at UCLA in 1987.

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11.

Jennifer Chayes opened Microsoft Research New England in July 2008 with Borgs.

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Jennifer Chayes's has contributed to the development of methods to analyze the structure and behavior of various networks, the design of auction algorithms, and the design and analysis of various business models for the online world.

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Jennifer Chayes's served on the Mathematical Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize from 2016 to 2018.

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Jennifer Chayes is a past Chair of the Mathematics Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a past Vice-President of the American Mathematical Society.

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Jennifer Chayes's is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, a Sloan Fellowship, and the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award.

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Jennifer 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.

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Jennifer Chayes's has been the recipient of many leadership awards, including one of the 2012 Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Awards.

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Jennifer Chayes is featured in the Notable Women in Computing cards.

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19.

Jennifer Chayes married Christian Borgs in 1993 and was previously married to Lincoln Jennifer Chayes whom she met at Wesleyan.

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