Michael Sipser

Michael Sipser is the Donner Professor of Mathematics and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT. He received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1979 and has been at MIT since 1980. His roles include Chairman of Applied Mathematics, Head of the Mathematics Department (2004–2014), and Dean of Science (2014–2020).

Education:

• Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley (1979)

Research Interests:

• Complexity Theory
• Algorithms
• Quantum Computation
• Efficient Error Correcting Codes
• Interactive Proof Systems

Awards:

• U.C. Berkeley Distinguished Alumni Award (2015)
• Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellowship (2016)
• ACM Fellow (2017)
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Author of the widely used textbook Introduction to the Theory of Computation (Third Edition, 2012). Active in the Theory of Computation research group at MIT.