Faith Ellen

Faith Ellen at WADS 2015

Faith Ellen (formerly known as Faith E. Fich) is a professor of computer science at the University of Toronto who studies distributed data structures and the theory of distributed computing.[1]

She earned her doctorate in 1982 from the University of California, Berkeley under the supervision of Richard Karp; her dissertation concerned lower bounds for cycle detection and parallel prefix sums.[2] She joined the faculty of the University of Washington in 1983, and moved to Toronto in 1986.[3]

She became a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2014.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Faith Ellen, University of Toronto, retrieved 2015-01-08.
  2. ↑ Faith E. Fich at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ Career paths contrasted, Computing Research Association, 2005, retrieved 2015-01-08.
  4. ↑ ACM Names Fellows for Innovations in Computing, ACM, January 8, 2015, retrieved 2015-01-08.


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