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

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, is a professor of

industrial engineering Industrial engineering (IE) is concerned with the design, improvement and installation of integrated systems of people, materials, information, equipment and energy. It draws upon specialized knowledge and skill in the mathematical, physical, an ...

and

operations research Operations research () (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a branch of applied mathematics that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve management 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

analysis of algorithms In computer science, the analysis of algorithms is the process of finding the computational complexity of algorithms—the amount of time, storage, or other resources needed to execute them. Usually, this involves determining a function that r ...

, 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'', '' SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics'' and ''Operations Research Letters''. His work has been funded by the

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and the

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. As of September 29, 2024, his publications have been cited over 82,000 times, and he has an

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of 56. 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, Ron Rivest, Ronald L. Rivest, and Clifford Stein. The book is described by its publisher as "the leading algorithms text in universities w ...

'', 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 69,000 of Stein's 82,000 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 university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

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.

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