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Jennifer Tour Chayes

1956 - Today

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Jennifer Tour Chayes is dean of the college of computing, data science, and society at the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining Berkeley, she was 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Jennifer Tour Chayes is the 1,003rd most popular mathematician (down from 996th in 2024), the 18,498th most popular biography from United States (down from 17,297th in 2019) and the 102nd most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jennifer Tour Chayes ranks 1,003 out of 1,004. Before her are Akshay Venkatesh, Svetlana Jitomirskaya, Edward Frenkel, Hee Oh, Daniel J. Bernstein, and Ulrike Tillmann. After her are Olga Holtz, Noam Elkies, Pietro Boselli, Hannah Fry, Cathy O'Neil, and Charles Hoskinson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Jennifer Tour Chayes ranks 814. Before her are Oliver Letwin, Frank McGarvey, Davie Cooper, Jimmy Nicholl, Diana Edulji, and Montel Williams. After her are Rebecca Kadaga, Gerald Henderson, Keith Vaz, Rajkumar Santoshi, Arundathi Nag, and Ron White.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jennifer Tour Chayes ranks 18,506 out of 20,380. Before her are Neilson Powless (1996), Montel Williams (1956), Mark Kozelek (1967), Jan-Michael Gambill (1977), Ryan Lewis (1988), and Keith Olbermann (1959). After her are Josh Brener (1984), Paolo Banchero (2002), Zeke Nnaji (2001), Marissa Ribisi (1974), Theresa Andrews (1962), and Nadia Bjorlin (1980).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Jennifer Tour Chayes ranks 102. Before her are June Huh (1983), Robert J. Lang (1961), Euphemia Haynes (1890), Steven Strogatz (1959), Joan Birman (1927), and Daniel J. Bernstein (1971). After her are Noam Elkies (1966), Cathy O'Neil (null), and Charles Hoskinson (1987).

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