Julia Chuzhoy

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Julia Chuzhoy
NationalityIsraeli
Alma mater Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.)
Known forApproximation algorithms, graph theory
AwardsBest Paper Award at the Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (2012)
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics, Computer science
Institutions Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, University of Chicago
Doctoral advisor Seffi Naor

Julia Chuzhoy is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, [1] known for her research on approximation algorithms and graph theory.

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Education and career

Chuzhoy earned bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1998, 2000, and 2004 respectively. [1] Her dissertation, on approximation algorithms, was supervised by Seffi Naor. [2] She has been at the Toyota Technological Institute since 2007, [1] and also holds a position in the Computer Science Department of the University of Chicago. [3]

Contributions and recognition

Chuzhoy won the best paper award at the 2012 Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science for her paper with Shi Li on approximating the problem of connecting many given pairs of vertices in a graph by edge-disjoint paths. [CL12] [4] [5] She is also known for her work showing a polynomial relation between the size of a grid graph minor of a graph and its treewidth. [CC16] [6] This connection between these two graph properties is a key component of the Robertson–Seymour theorem, is closely related to Halin's grid theorem for infinite graphs, and underlies the theory of bidimensionality for graph approximation algorithms.

She was an Invited Speaker at the 2014 International Congress of Mathematicians, in Seoul. [7] [3]

Selected publications

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References

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  2. Julia Chuzhoy at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. 1 2 Julia Chuzhoy gives invited address at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago, June 1, 2015, archived from the original on September 19, 2015, retrieved March 29, 2017
  4. Awards and honors, Toyota Technological Institute , retrieved 2017-03-28
  5. "Awards", Proceedings of the 53rd Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (PDF), IEEE Computer Society, 2012
  6. Lipton, R. J.; Regan, K. W. (June 8, 2015), "Minor Insights Are Useful", Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP
  7. "ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897", International Mathematical Union (IMU), archived from the original on 2017-11-08, retrieved 2017-03-28