Recipient of NSF Career Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, Packard Foundation Fellowship, Simons Investigator Award, Sloan Foundation Fellowship, Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship, and grants from Facebook, Google, Yahoo, MacArthur and Simons Foundations, AFOSR, ARO, and NSF. Member of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. Authored 'Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World' (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and 'Algorithm Design' (Addison Wesley, 2005).
Research Experience
Since Spring 2021, has been teaching a course entitled 'Choices and Consequences in Computing' (INFO 1260 / CS 1340) with Karen Levy. Also teaches a PhD-level course titled 'The Structure of Information Networks' (CS 6850).
Background
Professor at Cornell University, focusing on algorithms and networks, their roles in large-scale social and information systems, and their broader societal implications.
Miscellany
Advises multiple PhD students and postdoctoral researchers.