Jennifer Tour Chayes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jennifer Tour Chayes

American computer scientist and mathematician

Date of Birth: 20-Sep-1956

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Profession: computer scientist, physicist, mathematician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Jennifer Tour Chayes is a Technical Fellow and Managing Director of Microsoft Research New England in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which she founded in 2008, and Microsoft Research New York City, which she founded in 2012.
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.
She is considered one of the world's experts in the modeling and analysis of dynamically growing graphs.
Chayes has been with Microsoft Research since 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 for many years Professor of Mathematics at UCLA.
She is an author on almost 120 scientific papers and the inventor on more than 25 patents.
She has accepted an offer from the University of California, Berkeley to become the campus's Associate Provost for the Division of Data Science and Information and Dean of the School of Information.
Her tenure with UC Berkeley is scheduled to begin on January 1, 2020.