Jeff Edmonds is a Canadian and American
mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
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computer scientist
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Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...
specializing in
computational complexity theory
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and
machine learning
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Academic career
Edmonds received his Bachelors at Waterloo in 1987 and his Ph.D. in 1993 at University of Toronto. His thesis proved lower bounds on time-space tradeoffs. He did his post-doctorate work at the ICSI in Berkeley on secure data transmission over networks for multi-media applications. He joined Department of EECS at
Lassonde School of Engineering
The Lassonde School of Engineering is the professional engineering school of York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Lassonde incorporates crossover programming with York University’s Schulich School of Business and Osgoode Hall Law S ...
York University
York University (french: Université York), also known as YorkU or simply YU, is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's fourth-largest university, and it has approximately 55,700 students, 7,0 ...
in 1995.
Research
Edmonds' research interests include complexity theory, scheduling, proof systems, probability theory, combinatorics and machine learning.
Personal life
Edmonds is the son of another mathematician,
Jack Edmonds
Jack R. Edmonds (born April 5, 1934) is an American-born and educated computer scientist and mathematician who lived and worked in Canada for much of his life. He has made fundamental contributions to the fields of combinatorial optimization, pol ...
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Edmonds–Pruhs protocol Edmonds–Pruhs protocol is a protocol for fair cake-cutting. Its goal is to create a partially proportional division of a heterogeneous resource among ''n'' people, such that each person receives a subset of the cake which that person values as at ...
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References
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Living people
Canadian mathematicians
Canadian computer scientists
University of Toronto alumni
Academic staff of York University
Theoretical computer scientists
1963 births