Marina Lvovna Gavrilova (born 1971)[1] is a Russian-Canadian computer scientist whose research interests include machine learning, data fusion, and biometrics, including the use of behavioral characteristics to unmask anonymous social network contributors.[2] She has also published well-cited research on the use of Voronoi diagrams in path planning. She is a professor of computer science at the University of Calgary in Canada, where she holds a UCalgary Research Excellence Chair. She is also the editor-in-chief of Transactions on Computational Sciences.

Education and career

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Gavrilova earned a master's degree in computer science in 1993 from Lomonosov State University in Moscow. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Calgary in 1999.[3] Her doctoral dissertation, Proximity and Applications in General Metrics, was supervised by Jon Rokne.[4]

She is editor-in-chief of Transactions on Computational Science,[5] an academic journal[6] whose volumes are published as a series of edited volumes in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series.[5]

Recognition

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In 2021 the University of Calgary named Gavrilova as a recipient of the Order of the University of Calgary.[7] In 2022 the university named her as a Killam Annual Professor,[8] and in 2023 she was one of 22 professors to be awarded an inaugural UCalgary Research Excellence Chair.[9]

References

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  1. ^ Birth year from VIAF authority control record, accessed 2023-12-17
  2. ^ Stoelker, Tom (January 10, 2018), "There's no hiding", Fordham News, Fordham University, retrieved 2023-12-17
  3. ^ "Marina Gavrilova", UCalgary Profiles, University of Calgary, retrieved 2023-12-17
  4. ^ Marina Gavrilova at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ a b Transactions on Computational Science, Springer, retrieved 2023-12-17
  6. ^ "Transactions on Computational Science (TCS)", DBLP, retrieved 2023-12-17
  7. ^ "Class of 2021: Meet our fall 2021 Order of the University of Calgary recipients", UCalgary News, University of Calgary, November 9, 2021, retrieved 2023-12-17
  8. ^ "Six researchers named Killam Annual Professors", UCalgary News, University of Calgary, April 26, 2022, retrieved 2023-12-17
  9. ^ "22 UCalgary faculty appointed UCalgary Research Excellence Chairs", UCalgary News, University of Calgary, June 30, 2023, retrieved 2023-12-17
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