Clifford Stein, Professor of IEOR

Cliff Stein Clifford Stein is a Professor of IEOR at Columbia University. He also holds an appointment in the Department of Computer Science. He is the director of Undergraduate Programs for the IEOR Department. Prior to joining Columbia, he spent 9 years as an Assistant and Associate Professor in the Dartmouth College Department of Computer Science.

His research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms, combinatorial optimization, operations research, network algorithms, scheduling, algorithm engineering and computational biology. Professor Stein has published many influential papers in the leading conferences and journals in his field, and has occupied a variety of editorial positions including the journals ACM Transactions on Algorithms, Mathematical Programming, Journal of Algorithms, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics and Operations Research Letters. His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation and Sloan Foundation. He 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 the two textbook. Introduction to Algorithms, with T. Cormen, C. Leiserson and R. Rivest is currently the best-selling textbook in algorithms and has been translated into 8 languages. Discrete Math for Computer Science , with Ken Bogart and Scot Drysdale, is a new text book which covers discrete math at an undergraduate level.

Education

Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992.
M.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989.
B.S.E. Princeton University, 1987.

Research

* Some of my papers

* Programs for Combinatorial Optimization

* Students

Textbooks

Introduction to Algorithms


by Tom Cormen, Charles Leiserson, Ron Rivest and Clifford Stein. The official web site for the book is http://mitpress.mit.edu/algorithms. There is also information at the McGraw Hill website. A bug list can be found here . Tom Cormen maintains a FAQ list.

Discrete Math for Computer Science.


by Ken Bogart, Clifford Stein and Scot Drysdale. Information on this book is available at Key College Press and Springer

SODA 2006

I am the PC chair of SODA 2006. A list of accepted papers is available here . See you in Miami!

Teaching

* CSOR 4231 (Fall 2007) -- Analysis of Algorithms

* IEOR 6400 (Fall 2007) -- Scheduling: Deterministic Models

* Courses from Previous Semesters

Contact Information

* Voice: (212) 854-5238
* Fax: (212) 854-8103
* Office: 340 Mudd
* Email: cliff@ieor.columbia.edu
* Paper Mail: 
Prof. Clifford Stein
Department of IEOR
Columbia University
500 W. 120 St., MC 4704
New York, NY 10027

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