Jon KLEINBERG

Professor
2024 WLA Prize Laureate in Computer Science or Mathematics Tisch University Professor,
Computer Science & Information Science, Cornell University

Jon Kleinberg is the Tisch University Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Information Science at Cornell University, where he has served in roles including chair of the Department of Information Science and interim dean of Computing and Information Science. He received a PhD in Computer Science from MIT in 1996, and an AB in Computer Science and Mathematics from Cornell in 1993. 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. His work has contributed to the foundations of several types of algorithms that are central to online platforms, including for ranking search results on the Web, recommending links in social networks, and identifying trending topics in social media. He has also contributed theoretical results on clustering and high-dimensional search, on path-finding and cascading behavior in large networks, and on notions of fairness and bias in algorithmic decision-making. He is the author of two books in these areas, "Algorithm Design" (with Eva Tardos) and "Networks, Crowds, and Markets" (with David Easley), and is currently writing a third book with Karen Levy based on their joint class, "Choices and Consequences in Computing". He is a member of the US National Academies of Sciences and Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society, and serves on the US National AI Advisory Committee. He is the recipient of MacArthur, Packard, Simons, Sloan, and Vannevar Bush research fellowships, as well awards including the Nevanlinna Prize, the Lanchester Prize, the Harvey Prize, the SIGKDD Innovation Award, the ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award, and the ACM Prize in Computing.