Leslie Ann Goldberg is a professor of
computer science
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at the
University of Oxford
, mottoeng = The Lord is my light
, established =
, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
, chancellor ...
and a
Fellow
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of
St Edmund Hall, Oxford
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.
[.] Her research concerns the design and analysis of
algorithms
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for
random sampling
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and
approximate
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Etymology and usage
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combinatorial enumeration
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.
Education
Goldberg did her undergraduate studies at
Rice University
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and completed her
PhD at the
University of Edinburgh
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in 1992
under the joint supervision of
Mark Jerrum
Mark Richard Jerrum (born 1955) is a British computer scientist and computational theorist.
Jerrum received his Ph.D. in computer science 'On the complexity of evaluating multivariate polynomials' in 1981 from University of Edinburgh under the s ...
and
Alistair Sinclair
:'
Alistair Sinclair (born 1960) is a British computer scientist and computational theorist.
Sinclair received his B.A. in mathematics from St. John’s College, Cambridge in 1979, and his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Edinbu ...
after she was awarded the
Marshall Scholarship
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. Her dissertation, on algorithms for listing structures with
polynomial delay In the analysis of algorithms, an enumeration algorithm (i.e., an algorithm for listing a large or infinite collection of structures) is said to have polynomial delay if the time between the output of any one structure and the next is bounded by a ...
, won the Distinguished Dissertations in Computer Science prize.
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Career and research
Goldberg became the Head of Department for the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford in October 2021.
Prior to working at Oxford, her employers have included Sandia National Laboratories
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, the University of Warwick
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, and the University of Liverpool
, mottoeng = These days of peace foster learning
, established = 1881 – University College Liverpool1884 – affiliated to the federal Victoria Universityhttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2004/4 University of Manchester Act 200 ...
.
Goldberg serves as editor-in-chief
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The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
of the ''Journal of Discrete Algorithms'', and has served as program chair of the algorithms track of the (ICALP) in 2008.
Awards and honours
She is a member of the Academia Europaea
The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of Humanities, Letters, Law, and Sciences.
The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europea ...
(MAE)[.] and was awarded the Suffrage Science award
The Suffrage Science award is a prize for women in science, engineering and computing founded in 2011, on the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day by the MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences (LMS). There are three categories of awar ...
in 2016.
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
British computer scientists
British women computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Rice University alumni
Academics of the University of Warwick
Academics of the University of Liverpool
Fellows of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
Members of Academia Europaea
Sandia National Laboratories people