Jon Kleinberg is the Tisch University Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Information Science at Cornell University. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996 and has held faculty positions at Cornell since then. Kleinberg's research focuses on algorithms and networks, the roles they play in large-scale social and information systems, and their broader societal implications. He examines issues at the interface of networks and information, with emphasis on the social and information networks that underpin the Web and other online media. His work has been supported by an NSF Career Award, an ONR Young Investigator Award, grants from Google and Yahoo!, and other funding sources.

In Computer Science, Kleinberg has authored influential textbooks including Algorithm Design with Éva Tardos (Addison-Wesley, 2005) and Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World with David Easley (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Key publications encompass "Authoritative Sources in a Hyperlinked Environment" (Proceedings of the Ninth ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 1998), "The Small-World Phenomenon: An Algorithmic Perspective" (Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, 2000), "Maximizing the Spread of Influence through a Social Network" with David Kempe and Éva Tardos (Proceedings of the Ninth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2003), "Human Decisions and Machine Predictions" with H. Lakkaraju and others (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2018), "Algorithms as Discrimination Detectors" (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020), and "Using Large Language Models to Promote Health Equity" (New England Journal of Medicine AI, 2025). Kleinberg has earned numerous honors, including MacArthur, Packard, Simons, and Sloan Foundation Fellowships; NSF Career Award (1997); ONR Young Investigator Award (1999); Nevanlinna Prize; Lanchester Prize (2011); ACM Prize in Computing; ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award (2014); and World Laureates Association Prize (2024). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2011), National Academy of Engineering (2008), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2007), and American Philosophical Society (2024). His contributions have shaped network science, algorithmic fairness, and computational social science.

Professional Email: kleinber@cs.cornell.edu