Jure Leskovec
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| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Thesis | Dynamics of Large Networks (2008) |
| Doctoral advisor | Christos Faloutsos[1] |
| Notable awards | Lagrange Prize[2] Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship [3] |
Jure Leskovec is an associate professor of Computer Science at Stanford University focusing on networks. He is the chief scientist at Pinterest.[4]
Biography[edit]
Leskovec received a Diploma in Computer Science from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 2004 and a PhD in Computational and Statistical Learning from the Carnegie Mellon University in 2008.
Awards and honors[edit]
- Lagrange Prize,[5] 2015.
- Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, 2012.
References[edit]
- ^ Jure Leskovec at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ https://www.ml.cmu.edu/news/Lagrange-Prize-2015.html
- ^ http://www.sloan.org/fileadmin/media/files/srf/2012_srf_nytimes_ad.pdf
- ^ https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/introducing-pinterest-labs-2e230bdcd1fc#.tebnpqn8k
- ^ http://www.isi.it/press-release-the-2015-crt-foundation-lagrange-prize-awarded-to-panos-ipeirotis-and-jure-leskovec/
