Ask Us Anything – Cliff Stein

Cliff Stein is the Wai T. Chang Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, the interim director of the Data Science Institute, and a professor of computer science at Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science. His research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms, combinatorial optimization, operations research, network algorithms, scheduling, algorithm engineering and computational biology.

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