Dr. Steve Skiena

Director of the Institute for AI-Driven Discovery and Innovation at Stony Brook University

Steven Skiena is Director of the Institute for AI-Driven Discovery and Innovation at Stony Brook Brook University, where he serves as Distinguished Teaching Professor of Computer Science.  His research interests include Data Science, Natural Language Processing, Computational Biology, and Algorithms.  He is the author of six books, including "The Algorithm Design Manual,"   "The Data Science Design Manual", and "Who's Bigger: Where Historical Figures Really Rank". 

Skiena received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois in 1988, and the author of over 150 technical papers.  He is a former Fulbright scholar, and recipient of the ONR Young Investigator Award and the IEEE Computer Science and Engineer Teaching Award.   More info at http://www.cs.stonybrook.edu/~skiena/.