Sandra Zilles is a German and

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computer scientist, the

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in Computational Learning Theory at the

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. Her research area encompasses

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and

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Education and career

Zilles was an undergraduate in Germany, at the

Technical University of Kaiserslautern Technical University of Kaiserslautern (German: ''Technische Universität Kaiserslautern'', also known as TU Kaiserslautern or TUK) was a public university, public research university in Kaiserslautern, Germany. On January 1, 2023, the univers ...

, where she earned a diploma in mathematics in 2000 and a Ph.D. in computer science in 2004. Her dissertation, ''Uniform Learning of Recursive Functions'', was jointly supervised by Rolf Wiehagen and Thomas Zeugmann. From 2004 to 2008 she was a senior researcher at the

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. In 2007 she began a postdoctoral research visit to the

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, and in 2009 she joined the University of Regina as an assistant professor. She was given a tier 2

in 2010, promoted to associate professor in 2013, and promoted again to full professor in 2019. In 2022 she was given a tier 1 Canada Research Chair. She regularly teaches machine learning, computational learning theory and advanced data structures and algorithm design. She also serves as an associate editor of the

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(since 2020) as well as the

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(since 2014).

Recognition

In 2014, the Canadian Association of Computer Science named her as one of three Outstanding Young Computer Science Researchers. She was named to the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists of the

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in 2017.

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