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Philip Klein is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Brown University. He received his undergraduate degree in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University and later completed his doctoral studies in Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Before his current position at Brown, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard. Throughout his career, he has earned several accolades, including the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award and the Philip J. Bray Award for Teaching Excellence. In addition, he is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Klein's research primarily focuses on the design and analysis of algorithms, especially within the realm of combinatorial optimization and network analysis. His past work includes significant contributions to approximation algorithms, randomized algorithms, and parallel algorithms, with applications to combinatorial problems involving graphs. He is currently investigating optimization issues related to planar graphs and has secured funding from various sources, including the National Science Foundation and Northern Telecom, Inc.
Department: Department of Economics