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Steven Skiena
Director, Institute for AI-Driven Discovery and Innovation
Distinguished Teaching Professor

Department of Computer Science
Room 251
Stony Brook, NY 11794-2424

Phone: 
(631) 632-9026
Website (URL): 
http://www.cs.stonybrook.edu/~skiena/
Email: 
skiena@cs.sunysb.edu

Interests

Data science, natural language processing, and algorithms

Biography

Steven Skiena is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Computer Science and Director of Stony Brook University's Institute for AI-Driven Discovery and Innovation. His research interests include the design of graph, string, and geometric algorithms, and their applications (particularly to biology). He is the author of five books, including "The Algorithm Design Manual" and "Calculated Bets: Computers, Gambling, and Mathematical Modeling to Win". He is co-founder and Chief Scientist at General Sentiment (www.generalsentiment.com), a media measurement company based on his Lydia text/sentiment analysis system.

Skiena received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois in 1988, and the author of over 130 technical papers.

Research

Steven Skiena's Data Science Laboratory studies large-scale text analytics and sentiment analysis. General and project information can be found here.

Awards

Steven Skiena is a former Fulbright scholar, and recipient of the ONR Young Investigator Award, Chancellor's Award for Teaching and the IEEE Computer Science and Engineer Teaching Award. More info at http://www.cs.stonybrook.edu/~skiena/.

Teaching Summary

CSE 101, CSE 113, CSE 214, CSE 373, CSE 392, CSE 547, CSE 548, CSE 549, CSE 642, CSE 648, CSE 652, CSE 691