Jennifer Tour Chayes: advisors and students

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Jennifer Tour Chayes

American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1956)born 1956

Wikidata names Elliott H. Lieb and Michael Aizenman as doctoral advisors. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Elliott H. Lieb
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Michael Aizenman

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The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

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stated by WikidataElliott H. Liebstated by WikidataMichael Aizenman
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stated by WikidataJoel Lebowitzstated by WikidataSam Edwards
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stated by WikidataJulian Seymour Schwingerstated by WikidataPeter Bergmann
4 steps up
stated by WikidataIsidor Isaac Rabistated by WikidataPhilipp Frank

Education and career8

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Harvard University
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Princeton University
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Wesleyan University
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Cornell University
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University of California, Los Angeles
worked
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University of Washington
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Microsoft
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University of California, Berkeley
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At a glance

known as: mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, university teacher, academic administrator
awards: Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Awards, 2012, ACM Fellow, 2010, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2005, Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics, 2020, Honorary doctor of Leiden University, 2016, Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2013, ACM Distinguished Service Award, 2020
member of: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, from 2014, Association for Computing Machinery, from 2010, National Academy of Sciences, from 2019, American Mathematical Society, from 2012, Association for Women in Mathematics, from 2019
Wikipedia: in 19 languages

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Elsewhere9

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaJennifer Tour Chayes
stated by WikidataWikidataQ11487
stated by WikidataORCID0000-0003-4020-8618
stated by WikidataVIAF311291403
stated by WikidataIdRef176586687

papers

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stated by WikidataDBLPc/JenniferTChayes
stated by WikidataScopus6701746296

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project47677

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Read on 27 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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@misc{academicancestry_Q11487,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Jennifer Tour Chayes: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q11487},
  note = {read on 2026-10-27}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 27). Jennifer Tour Chayes: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-27]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q11487