Scientist spans disciplines by looking at networks probabilistically and probabilities as networks

Devavrat Shah arrived at Stanford University as a graduate student in computer science in 1999, just a few months after a couple of other students in the department, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, received $25 million in financing for a company that they'd started in a friend's garage, which they called Google. "The first time I met someone from outside Stanford," Shah says, "the guy said, 'Oh, so you're a PhD in the computer science department? What's the name of your startup?'"

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