Anne Elizabeth Condon, is an Irish-Canadian computer scientist, professor, and former head of the Computer Science Department of the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks among the top thre ...

. Her research focuses on

computational complexity theory In theoretical computer science and mathematics, computational complexity theory focuses on classifying computational problems according to their resource usage, and relating these classes to each other. A computational problem is a task solved ...

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, and bioinformatics.Faculty web page
University of British Columbia, retrieved 2011-11-20.Who We Are: Anne Condon
, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, retrieved 2011-11-20. She has also held the

NSERC The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC; french: Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada, CRSNG) is the major federal agency responsible for funding natural sciences and engineering rese ...

/General Motors Canada Chair for Women in Science and Engineering from 2004 to 2009, and has worked to improve the success of women in the sciences and engineering.

Biography

Condon did her undergraduate studies at

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, earning a bachelor's degree in 1982. She moved to the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattl ...

for her graduate studies, receiving her doctorate in 1987 under the supervision of

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. She then joined the faculty at the

University of Wisconsin–Madison A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United Stat ...

, and remained there until her 1999 move to UBC.

Personal life

Condon is an avid triathlete, finishing 7th in her age-group (F55-59) durin
Ironman Canada 2019
and finishing 1st in her age group (F60-64) fo
Ironman Ireland 2022
in an impressive 12:10 hours timeframe. At th
Ironman Hawaii 2022
she finished 18th in her age group (F60-64) with a time of 13:39. At th
Ironman 70.3 Championship 2022
she finished 8th in her age group with a time of 5:55.

Awards and honors

Condon won an ACM Distinguished Dissertation award (honorable mention) for her thesis research. In 2010, the Association for Computing Machinery named her an

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for contributions to complexity theory and leadership in advancing women in computing. In the same year, she also won the A. Nico Habermann Award of the

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for "long-standing and impactful service toward the goal of increasing the participation of women in computer science research."A. Nico Habermann Award 2010: Anne Condon
, CRA, retrieved 2011-11-20.CRA 2010 A. Nico Habermann Award presented to Anne Condon
University of Washington, 11 June 2011, retrieved 2011-11-20. She is also a winner of the University College Cork Distinguished Alumna Award,
the University of Washington CSE Alumni Achievement Award.,Anne Condon, Jeremy Jaech win UW CSE Alumni Achievement Award
University of Washington, 11 June 2011, retrieved 2011-11-20. and the 2012 University of Washington College of Engineering Diamond Award for Distinguished Achievement in Academia.
University of Washington College of Engineering, retrieved 2012-09-06. She was the 2014 winner of the

Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) is a series of conferences designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. It is the world's largest gathering of women in computing. The celebra ...

Technical Leadership ABIE AwardABIE Award winners, technical leadership: Anne Condon: 2014 Winner of the Grace Hopper Celebration Technical Leadership ABIE Award
, Anita Borg Institute, retrieved 2016-08-25. Condon was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2012.The Royal Society of Canada Class of 2012 New Fellows
The Royal Society of Canada, 5 September 2012, retrieved 2012-09-06.

Publications

* M. Andronescu, A. Condon, D.H. Turner, and D.H. Mathews. The Determination of RNA folding nearest neighbor parameters, ''Methods in Molecular Biology'', 1097:45-70, 2014. * B. Rastegari, A. Condon, N. Immorlica, R. Irving, and K. Leyton-Brown. Reasoning about optimal stable matchings under partial information, ''The Fifteenth ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC''), 431–448, 2014. * H. Jabbari and A. Condon. A fast and robust iterative algorithm for prediction of RNA pseudoknotted secondary structures ''BMC Bioinformatics'', 15:147, 2014. * A. Condon, J. Manuch and C. Thachuk, The complexity of string partitioning, Journal of Discrete Algorithms, 32:24-43, 2015. Preliminary version appeared in the ''23rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science'' 7354:159-172, 2012. * A. Condon and R. M. Karp, "Algorithms for Graph Partitioning on the Planted Bisection Model", ''J. Random Structures and Algorithms'', 18, 116–140, 2001. * Q. Liu, A. G. Frutos, L. Wang, A. Condon, R. M. Corn, and L. M. Smith, "DNA Computations on Surfaces", ''Nature'', Vol. 403 pages 175–179, 2000. * O. Madani, A. Condon, and S. Hanks, "On the Undecidability of Probabilistic Planning and Infinite-Horizon Partially Observable Markov Decision Process Problems", ''Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence'' (AAAI'99), July 1999. * A. Condon, L. Hellerstein, S. Pottle, and A. Wigderson, "Finite State Automata with Nondeterministic and Probabilistic States", ''SIAM Journal on Computing'', Vol. 27, No. 3, pages 739–762, June 1998.

References

External links

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Listing of publications on DBLP
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