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Christian Borgs is a Professor in the Berkeley AI Research Group (BAIR) at the University of California, Berkeley. He has dedicated over two decades to Microsoft Research, where he started in 1997 and co-founded the Theory Group. In 2008, he played a pivotal role in co-founding Microsoft Research New England in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a lab that combines traditional computer science with statistics and qualitative social science research. Borgs served as the Deputy Managing Director of this lab until his departure to Berkeley in 2020. He obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematical Physics from the University of Munich and completed post-doctoral work at the Free University in Berlin. Before establishing the Microsoft Research theory group, he held the C4 chair in Statistical Mechanics at the University of Leipzig. Borgs has received numerous honors, including the Karl-Scheel Prize from the German Physical Society and the Heisenberg Fellowship from the German Research Council. He has also been recognized as a Fellow of both the American Mathematical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton on two occasions.
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