Jennifer Chayes
Biography
Before joining Microsoft, Chayes was a Professor of Mathematics at UCLA, where she received the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award. During her time at Microsoft, she was an Affiliate Professor of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Washington. She is an author of about 150 scientific papers and the inventor on more than 25 patents. She earned her Ph.D. in mathematical physics at Princeton University and has been awarded honorary doctorates from Bard College in New York and Leiden University in the Netherlands.
Chayes has received numerous awards for both leadership and scientific contributions, including the Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Leadership Award, the John von Neumann Award of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the American Mathematical Society.
Education
- 1983, PhD, Mathematical Physics, Princeton University
- 1979, BA, Biology and Physics, Wesleyan University
Awards, Memberships and Fellowships
- Honorary Member of the London Mathematical Society, 2022
- ACM Distinguished Service Award, 2020
- Association for Women in Mathematics Fellow, 2020
- National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Member, 2019
- SIAM John von Neumann Lecture Prize, 2015
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member, 2014
- American Mathematical Society (AMS) Fellow, 2013
- Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award, 2012
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow, 2010
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow, 2006
- Sloan Research Fellow, 1989