Jennifer Tour Chayes

Jennifer Tour Chayes is an American mathematician and computer scientist, dean of the college of computing, data science, and society at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her PhD in mathematical physics from Princeton University in 1983 and became a tenured mathematics professor at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1987. In 1997 she co-founded the Theory Group at Microsoft Research, and she later founded Microsoft Research New England in 2008 and Microsoft Research New York City in 2012. Her research concerns phase transitions in discrete mathematics and computer science, the structure and dynamics of growing networks and graphs, and algorithmic game theory. She has been a vice-president of the American Mathematical Society and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.