SPEAKER: Jon Kleinberg is the Tisch University Professor at Cornell University. His research focuses on the interaction of algorithms and networks and the roles they play in large-scale social and information systems. His work has been supported by an NSF CAREER Award, an ONR Young Investigator Award, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a Packard Foundation Fellowship, a Simons Investigator Award, a Sloan Foundation Fellowship, a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship, and grants from Facebook, Google, Yahoo, the MacArthur Foundation, the ARO, and the NSF. Kleinberg is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
