Faith Ellen

Faith Ellen at WADS 2015

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

Education and career

She earned her bachelor's degree and master's from the University of Waterloo in 1977 and 1978, 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] From 1997 to 2001, she was the vice chair of SIGACT,^[4] the leading international society for theory of computation. From 2006 to 2009, she was chair of the steering committee for PODC, a top international conference for theory of distributed computing. In 2014, she also co-authored the book, Impossibility Results for Distributed Computing.^[5]

She became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2014.^[6]

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. "Faith Ellen | Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing". simons.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
5. Attiya, Hagit; Ellen, Faith (2014-06-19). Impossibility Results for Distributed Computing. Synthesis Lectures on Distributed Computing Theory. Vol. 5. San Rafael, California: Morgan & Claypool. pp. 1–162. doi:10.2200/S00551ED1V01Y201311DCT012. ISSN 2155-1626. S2CID 20722422. Review: Mohan, T. C. zbMATH. Zbl 1396.68004.
6. ACM Names Fellows for Innovations in Computing Archived 2015-01-09 at the Wayback Machine, ACM, January 8, 2015, retrieved 2015-01-08.