Michael A. Bender is an associate professor of computer science at the Stony Brook University and Chief Scientist at Tokutek, Inc. His research interests include analysis of algorithms, databases, parallel computing, scheduling, data structures, and I/O-efficient computing on large data sets. Bender co-founded Tokutek in 2006, where he serves as Chief Scientist. He has held Visiting Scientist positions at both MIT and King's College London. Bender has coauthored over 90 articles. He was a member of the Sandia team that won the CPA R&D 100 Award for scheduling in parallel computers. He has also won four awards for graduate and undergraduate teaching. Bender received his B.A. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1992 and obtained a D.E.A. in Computer Science from the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France in 1993. He completed a Ph.D. on Scheduling Algorithms from Harvard University in 1998.