Dennis Shasha is a Julius Silver Professor of computer science at New York University and an Associate Director of NYU Wireless. His degrees include a PhD degree in applied math from Harvard University, a Master's in computer science from Syracuse University, and a BS in engineering from Yale University. 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; a tool 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. 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 and automated verification. He has written more than 85 journal papers, 80 conference papers, and 25 patents. He has written the puzzle column for various publications, including Scientific American, Dr. Dobb's Journal, and 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.
