Clifford Seth Stein (born December 14, 1965), a

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, is a professor of

industrial engineering Industrial engineering is an engineering profession that is concerned with the optimization of complex processes, systems, or organizations by developing, improving and implementing integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information an ...

and

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, where he also holds an appointment in the Department of Computer Science. Stein is chair of the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department at

. Prior to joining Columbia, Stein was a professor at

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. Stein's research interests include the design and

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, combinatorial optimization, operations research, network algorithms, scheduling, algorithm engineering and

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. Stein has published many influential papers in the leading conferences and journals in his fields of research, and has occupied a variety of editorial positions including in the journals ''ACM Transactions on Algorithms'', ''Mathematical Programming'', ''Journal of Algorithms'', ''

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'' and ''Operations Research Letters''. His work has been funded by the

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and the

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. As of November 1, 2015, his publications have been cited over 46,000 times, and he has an

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of 42. Stein is the winner of several prestigious awards including an NSF Career Award, an Alfred Sloan Research Fellowship and the Karen Wetterhahn Award for Distinguished Creative or Scholarly Achievement. He is also the co-author of two textbooks: * ''

Introduction to Algorithms ''Introduction to Algorithms'' is a book on computer programming by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, and Clifford Stein. The book has been widely used as the textbook for algorithms courses at many universities and is ...

'', with T. Cormen, C. Leiserson and R. Rivest, which is currently the best-selling textbook in algorithms and has been translated into 8 languages. About 39,500 of Stein's 46,000 citations are made to this book. * ''Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science'', with Ken Bogart and Scot Drysdale, which is a new textbook that covers discrete math at an undergraduate level. Stein earned his B.S.E. from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the n ...

in 1987, a

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from The

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in 1989, and a

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also from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992. In recent years, Stein has built up close ties with the Norwegian research community which earned him an honorary doctorate from the University of Oslo (May 2010).

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