Dean, MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing
Henry Ellis Warren (1894) Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
Daniel Huttenlocher is the inaugural dean of the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing. He began his academic career at Cornell University in 1988, where he was a member of the computer science faculty. In 1998, he chaired the task force that led to the creation of Cornell’s interdisciplinary Faculty of Computing and Information Science, later serving as its Dean starting in 2009 and, in 2012, becoming the founding dean of the new Cornell Tech campus in New York City.
Huttenlocher also has extensive industry experience, having served as a scientist and lab director at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center for 12 years before leaving to help establish a financial technology startup, Intelligent Markets, in 2000.
Huttenlocher’s research and scholarship in computer science is broad and interdisciplinary, spanning algorithms, social media, and computer vision. He has earned the Longuet-Higgins Award for Fundamental Advances in Computer Vision (2010), and various fellowships and awards from the National Science Foundation, the Association for Computing Machinery, IEEE, and Phi Beta Kappa.
He is a member of the boards of directors of Amazon and Corning, and of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation where he has served as chair since 2018.