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 bachelors and masters from the University of Waterloo in 1997 and 1998, respectively, and 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 Archived 2015-01-09 at the Wayback Machine., ACM, January 8, 2015, retrieved 2015-01-08.


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