Valerie King
Valerie King is professor of Computer Science at the University of Victoria in Canada. She received her PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley. She was a visiting professor at University of Toronto, Hebrew University, University of Copenhagen, and École normale supérieure in Paris, Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and the Simons Institute and researcher at Microsoft, HP, and NECI.
She served on the Independent Panel on Internet Voting for Elections BC and as program committee chair of STOC 2017. She received the distinction ACM Fellow for her work on randomized algorithms, especially dynamic graph algorithms and fault-tolerant distributed computing.