Jon Kleinberg

Jon Kleinberg is the Tisch University Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Information Science at Cornell University. His research focuses on the interaction of algorithms and networks, the roles they play in large-scale social and information systems, and their broader societal implications. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; he currently serves on the National AI Advisory Committee (NAIAC), and has been a member of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Research Council, and the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Advisory Committee of the National Science Foundation. He is the recipient of MacArthur, Packard, Simons, Sloan, and Vannevar Bush research fellowships, as well awards including the Harvey Prize, the Nevanlinna Prize, the ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award, and the ACM Prize in Computing.