Education
Princeton University. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Princeton University. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Stein is chair of the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department at Columbia University. Prior to joining Columbia, Stein was a professor at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Stein"s research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms, combinatorial optimization, operations research, network algorithms, scheduling, algorithm engineering and computational biology.
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 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Transactions on Algorithms, Mathematical Programming, Journal of Algorithms, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Journal on Discrete Mathematics and Operations Research Letters.
His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Sloan Foundation. As of November 1, 2015, his publications have been cited over 46,000 times, and he has an h-index of 42.
He is also the co-author of two textbooks:
Introduction to Algorithms, 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 Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Princeton University in 1987, a Master of Science from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989, and a Doctor of Philosophy 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).