Samantha Kleinberg is an American computer scientist known for her work in causality, artificial intelligence applications in healthcare, and health informatics. She is a professor of computer science at

Stevens Institute of Technology Stevens Institute of Technology is a Private university, private research university in Hoboken, New Jersey. Founded in 1870, it is one of the oldest technological universities in the United States and was the first college in America solely de ...

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and current Farber Chair Professor.

Education

Kleinberg earned a bachelor's, master's, and PhD from NYU in 2006, 2008, and 2010 respectively. She did a post-doc at Columbia from 2010 to 2012.

Career

In 2012, she became a faculty member at Stevens with promotions in 2018 to associate professor and 2024 to full professor. In 2023, she also was appointed to the position of Farber Chair Professor named after David J. Farber. Kleinberg has written two books in causality and was the editor of a third. A text book titled ''Causality, Probability, and Time'' in 2012, a general audience book ''Why: A Guide to Finding and Using Causes'' in 2015, and editor to ''Time and Causality across the Sciences.'' in 2019.

Honors and community service

Kleinberg is a

National Science Foundation CAREER Award The National Science Foundation CAREER award is the most prestigious award presented by the National Science Foundation (NSF) of the United States Federal Government to support junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through rese ...

recipient, a

James S. McDonnell Foundation The James S. McDonnell Foundation was founded in 1950 by aerospace pioneer James S. McDonnell. It was established to "improve the quality of life," and does so by contributing to the generation of new knowledge through its support of research an ...

Scholar, and a Kavli Fellow with the

National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, NGO, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the ...

. She serves on the editorial boards for Obersvational Studies and the European Journal for Philosophy of Science. She has served on program committees for Conference for Health, Inference and Learning, Machine Learning for Healthcare,

AAAI The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) is an international scientific society devoted to promote research in, and responsible use of, artificial intelligence. AAAI also aims to increase public understanding of artif ...

IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) organization, 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and other related disciplines. The IEEE ...

, ACM, AMIA, and Grace Hopper Celebration.

References

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