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Alcatel-Lucent Professor of Communications and Networking, Professor of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, and of Photon Science

Alex Aiken

Alcatel-Lucent Professor of Communications and Networking, Professor of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, and of Photon Science
Alex Aiken is the Alcatel-Lucent Professor of Computer Science at Stanford. Alex received his Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Music from Bowling Green State University in 1983 and his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1988. Alex was a Research Staff Member at the IBM Almaden Research Center (1988-1993) and a Professor in the EECS department at UC Berkeley (1993-2003) before joining the Stanford faculty in 2003. His research interest is in areas related to programming languages.

Education

PhD, Cornell (1988)