Department of Computer Science
Room 245
Stony Brook, NY 11794-2424
Michael A. Bender is the John L. Hennessy Chaired Professor of Computer Science at Stony Brook University. He was Founder and Chief Scientist at Tokutek, Inc, an enterprise database company, which was acquired by Percona in 2014. He has won several awards, including an R&D 100 Award, a Test-of-Time Award, a Distinguished Paper Award, two Best Paper Awards, and five awards for graduate and undergraduate teaching.
Bender received his B.A. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1992 and obtained a D.E.A. and Magistère in Computer Science from the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France in 1993. He completed a Ph.D. on Scheduling Algorithms from Harvard University in 1998. He has held Visiting Scientist positions at both MIT and King's College London. He is a Fellow of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS).
Michael Bender works in both pure and applied algorithms, data structures, parallel computing, I/O-efficient computing, storage systems, and scheduling. He has published over 190 papers, and has been PI/co-PI of 39 grants.
PODS Best Paper Award, 2024;
ASPLOS Distinguished Paper Award, 2023;
USENIX FAST Best Paper Award, 2016;
IPDPS Best Paper Award, 2015;
Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, SBU, 2015;
Major Contributions to Graduate Education and Research, CS Dept, SBU, 2012;
Imre Simon Test-of-Time Award, 2012;
Undergraduate Teaching Award, CS Dept, SBU, 2006;
R&D 100 Award, 2006;
PODS Best Newcomer Award, 2006;
Dean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, SBU, 2005;
Graduate Teaching Award, CS Dept, SBU, 2000.