Department of Computer Science
Room 245
Stony Brook, NY 11794-2424
Michael A. Bender is the John L. Hennessy Chaired Professor of Computer Science at Stony Brook University. He was Founder and Chief Scientist at Tokutek, Inc, an enterprise database company, which was acquired by Percona in 2014. He has won several awards, including an R&D 100 Award, a Test-of-Time Award, two Distinguished Paper Award, three Best Paper Awards, and six 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. and Magistère in Computer Science from the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France in 1993. He completed a Ph.D. on Scheduling Algorithms from Harvard University in 1998. He has held Visiting Scientist positions at both MIT and King's College London.
Bender is a Fellow of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Michael Bender works in both pure and applied algorithms, data structures, parallel computing, I/O-efficient computing, storage systems, and scheduling. He has published over 200 papers, and has been PI/co-PI of 40 grants.
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2026;
SPAA Distinguished Paper Award, 2025;
ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award, 2024;
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2024;
Fellow of the European Association of Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), 2023;
PODS Best Paper Award, 2024;
TREES Award (Teachers Rated Excellent Educators by their Students), 2023;
ASPLOS Distinguished Paper Award, 2023;
USENIX FAST Best Paper Award, 2016;
IPDPS Best Paper Award, 2015;
Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, SBU, 2015;
Major Contributions to Graduate Education and Research, CS Dept, SBU, 2012;
Imre Simon Test-of-Time Award, 2012;
Undergraduate Teaching Award, CS Dept, SBU, 2006;
R&D 100 Award, 2006;
PODS Best Newcomer Award, 2006;
Dean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, SBU, 2005;
Graduate Teaching Award, CS Dept, SBU, 2000;