Jure Leskovec

Jure Leskovec is chief scientist at Pinterest and associate professor of computer science at Stanford University. Jure’s research focuses on computation over massive data and has applications in computer science, social sciences, economics, marketing, and healthcare. This research has won several awards including a Lagrange Prize, Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and numerous best paper awards. Jure holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a PhD in machine learning from Carnegie Mellon University and undertook postdoctoral training at Cornell University.