Michael Sipser

Michael Sipser
Michael Sipser
Born	Michael Fredric Sipser; September 17, 1954; Brooklyn, New York
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.