Kleinberg

Provost Kent Fuchs has appointed Professor Jon Kleinberg ’93 interim dean of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science (CIS) through December 2015, while Dean Haym Hirsh takes a personal leave.

“I appreciate that Jon has agreed to assume the interim deanship,” said Fuchs. “CIS will benefit from his perspective as a scientist, faculty member, administrator and alumnus. Jon will continue to build on Haym’s work spotlighting the important research being done by the CIS faculty and its students.”

“I look forward to taking on this role,” Kleinberg said. “CIS’s programs are among the best in the world, and we need to continue to grow to meet our increasing student demand and to support the research and scholarship of our faculty across the university.”

Kleinberg, who joined the faculty in 1996, is a Tisch University Professor, a professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Information Science, and chair of 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 National Science Foundation Career Award, an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a Packard Foundation Fellowship, a Sloan Foundation Fellowship, and grants from Facebook, Google, Yahoo! and the National Science Foundation. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Kleinberg earned his bachelor’s degree from Cornell in 1993 and received his S.M. degree (1994) and Ph.D. (1996) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.