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Jon Kleinberg

Tisch University Professor of Computer Science and Information Science
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About

Jon Kleinberg is a professor in both computer science and information science. His research focuses on issues at the interface of networks and information, with an emphasis on the social and information networks that underpin the Web and other online media. His work has been supported by an NSF Career Award, an ONR Young Investigator Award, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a Packard Foundation Fellowship, a Sloan Foundation Fellowship, and grants from Google, Yahoo!, and the NSF. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.

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Research areas
Data Science
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Network Science
Computational Social Sciences
Ethics, Law and Policy
Human-Computer Interaction and Design
Theory of Computing
Contact

(607) 255-9197

kleinber@cs.cornell.edu
Location
Gates Hall 318
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Computer Science
Faculty (Department)
Information Science

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