Alex Aiken

Alcatel-Lucent Professor, Stanford University

Computer Science Division Director, SLAC


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Contact Information
emailaaiken@stanford.edu
office490 Gates
phone650-725-3359
assistant
Opeta Henderson
opetah@stanford.edu
650-721-1166

Biographical Sketch
Alex Aiken is the Alcatel-Lucent Professor of Computer Science at Stanford. Alex received his Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Music from
Bowling Green State University in 1983 and his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1988. Alex was a Research Staff Member at the IBM Almaden Research Center (1988-1993) and a Professor in the EECS department at UC Berkeley (1993-2003) before joining the Stanford faculty in 2003. His research interest is in areas related to programming languages. He is an ACM Fellow, a recipient of ACM SIGPLAN's Programming Languages Achievement Award and Phi Beta Kappa's Teaching Award, and a former chair of the Stanford Computer Science Department.

Alex is married to Jennifer Widom. Jennifer and Alex have a son Tim and a daughter Emily. Here are some photos from the family's travels.

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I also maintain a page of past research projects and a set of pages internal to current projects.
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