Michael Sipser

Michael Sipser

Born	Michael Fredric Sipser (1954-09-17) September 17, 1954 Brooklyn, New York
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Cornell University University of California at Berkeley
Awards	Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow, American Mathematical Society Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics Computer Science
Institutions	MIT
Thesis	Nondeterminism and the Size of Two-Way Finite Automata (1980)
Doctoral advisor	Manuel Blum
Doctoral students	Lance Fortnow Sofya Raskhodnikova Leonard Schulman Daniel Spielman Andrew Sutherland Yiqun Lisa Yin

Website	math.mit.edu/~sipser/

Michael Fredric Sipser (born September 17, 1954) is an American theoretical computer scientist who has made early contributions to computational complexity theory. He is a professor of applied mathematics and was the dean of science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.