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]
Notable students

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

Early life and education

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.

After finishing his PhD, Leskovec worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University for a year. During this time, he was advised by Jon Kleinberg.

Research and career

After his postdoctoral stint at Cornell University, Leskovec joined the faculty of Stanford University as an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science in 2009. He was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2016.

His general research area is applied machine learning and data science for large interconnected systems. His work focuses on modeling complex, richly-labeled relational structures, graphs, and networks for systems at all scales, from interactions of proteins in a cell to interactions between humans in a society. His research finds applications in a variety of settings including commonsense reasoning, recommender systems, computational social science, and computational biology with an emphasis on drug discovery.[5]

Leskovec co-founded a startup called Kosei in 2014 that was acquired by Pinterest in 2015.[6]

Awards and honors

Select publications

References

  1. "Lagrange Prize". isi.it. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  2. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-05-09. Retrieved 2016-03-05.{{cite web}}: 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. "Leskovec -- Bio".
  6. "Pinterest acquires Kosei". 21 January 2015.
  7. "Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship". Microsoft. 19 July 2011.
  8. "Press release - The 2015 CRT Foundation - Lagrange Prize awarded to Panos Ipeirotis and Jure Leskovec". Isi.it. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
  9. "Awards". KDD 2023.
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