Biography

Dennis Shasha is currently a Julius Silver Professor of computer science at the
Courant Institute of New York University, and an Associate
Director of NYU Wireless.
He works on problems that resemble puzzles,
including meta-algorithms for machine learning to achieve guaranteed
correctness rates; causality algorithms with plant biologists and ecologists;
automated verification for concurrent algorithms;
tools and algorithms for policy planners facing epidemics;
tree and graph matching; 
algorithms
for time series for finance;
devices to combat opioid deviation and flooding; and large language
model based system for a variety of applications notably health care, contracts and wireless technology.
Because he likes to type, he has written
six books of puzzles about a mathematical detective named
Dr. Ecco, a biography about
great computer scientists, and
a book about the future of computing.
He has also written eight technical books about database tuning, biological
pattern recognition, time series, DNA computing, non-parametric statistics, 
data structures, and
automated verification. 
He has written
more than 90 journal papers,
80 conference papers, and 25 patents.
Because he's easily confused, he has written the puzzle column for various
publications including Scientific American, Dr. Dobb's Journal,
and currently the Communications of the ACM.
He is a fellow of the ACM, an INRIA International Chair,
and a senior member of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors.

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Biography
   
Dennis Shasha is currently a Julius Silver Professor of computer science at the Courant Institute of New York University, and an Associate Director of NYU Wireless. He works on problems that resemble puzzles, including meta-algorithms for machine learning to achieve guaranteed correctness rates; causality algorithms with plant biologists and ecologists; automated verification for concurrent algorithms; tools and algorithms for policy planners facing epidemics; tree and graph matching;  algorithms for time series for finance; devices to combat opioid deviation and flooding; and large language model based system for a variety of applications notably health care, contracts and wireless technology. Because he likes to type, he has written six books of puzzles about a mathematical detective named Dr. Ecco, a biography about great computer scientists, and a book about the future of computing. He has also written eight technical books about database tuning, biological pattern recognition, time series, DNA computing, non-parametric statistics,  data structures, and automated verification.  He has written more than 90 journal papers, 80 conference papers, and 25 patents. Because he's easily confused, he has written the puzzle column for various publications including Scientific American, Dr. Dobb's Journal, and currently the Communications of the ACM. He is a fellow of the ACM, an INRIA International Chair, and a senior member of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors.