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Faith Ellen
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Ellen at WADS 2015
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| Alma mater | |
| Awards | ACM Fellow (2014) |
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| Institutions | University of Toronto |
| Thesis | Two Problems in Concrete Complexity: Cycle Detection and Parallel Prefix Computation (1982) |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Karp |
Faith Ellen is a Canadian professor. She teaches computer science at the University of Toronto. She studies how computers work together in groups. This is called distributed computing. She also looks at how information is organized in these systems.
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Her Journey in Computer Science
Early Education
Faith Ellen studied at the University of Waterloo. She earned her first degree there in 1977. A year later, in 1978, she completed her master's degree. She then went to the University of California, Berkeley. In 1982, she earned her PhD. Her main teacher there was Richard Karp. Her PhD work looked at how to find cycles in computer programs. It also studied how to do calculations quickly using many computers at once.
Teaching and Research
Professor Ellen started teaching in 1983. Her first job was at the University of Washington. In 1986, she moved to the University of Toronto. She has been a professor there ever since.
She also helped lead important computer science groups. From 1997 to 2001, she was a vice chair for SIGACT. This is a big international group for computer theory. Later, from 2006 to 2009, she led the PODC steering committee. PODC is a major meeting for people who study distributed computing.
In 2014, she helped write a book. It was about the limits of what distributed computers can do.
Awards and Recognition
In 2014, Faith Ellen received a special honor. She became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). This award is given to computer scientists who have made big contributions.
