Lea Verou
Greek web developer
Lea Verou (Greek: Λία Βέρου) is a Greek-American computer scientist, front end web developer, speaker and author, originally from Lesbos, Greece. Verou is currently a research assistant at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), an elected participant in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Technical Architecture Group (TAG), and an invited expert in the W3C CSS Working Group.
She is the author of the book CSS Secrets: Better Solutions to Everyday Web Design Problems (ISBN 978-1-449-37263-7).
Education
Verou earned her Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Athens University of Economics and Business. She had previously attended Aristotle University of Thessaloniki studying electrical engineering and computer science. She later earned a Master of Science degree in computer science from MIT. Since 2014, she has been a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) candidate at MIT in electrical engineering and computer science.
Her background encompasses both technical development and visual design.
Career
Verou started her career as a freelancer in 2005 while she was in university. In 2008, she co-founded a Greek web development company called Fresset Ltd, which managed a number of Greek community websites that she and her co-founder had created. The company was sold in 2013.
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