Jure Leskovec

Jure Leskovec is a Slovenian computer scientist, entrepreneur and associate professor of Computer Science at Stanford University focusing on networks. He is the chief scientist at Pinterest.[4]

Jure Leskovec
Alma materUniversity of Ljubljana
AwardsLagrange Prize[1]
Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship [2]
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsStanford University
ThesisDynamics of Large Networks (2008)
Doctoral advisorChristos Faloutsos[3]

Biography

In 2004, Leskovec received a Diploma in Computer Science from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, researching semantic networks-based creation of abstracts, using machine learning; in 2008 he received a PhD in Computational and Statistical Learning from the Carnegie Mellon University.

Awards and honors

References

  1. Iriondo, Roberto. "404 Page Not found". Machine Learning - Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved 11 March 2019. Cite uses generic title (help)
  2. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-05-09. Retrieved 2016-03-05.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. Jure Leskovec at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. "Introducing Pinterest Labs". Medium.com. 28 February 2017. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
  5. "Press release - The 2015 CRT Foundation - Lagrange Prize awarded to Panos Ipeirotis and Jure Leskovec". Isi.it. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
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