Esther M. (Estie) Arkin is an Israeli–American mathematician and computer scientist whose research interests include operations research, computational geometry, combinatorial optimization, and the design and analysis of algorithms. She is a professor of applied mathematics and statistics at Stony Brook University. At Stony Brook, she also directs the undergraduate program in applied mathematics and statistics,[1] and is an affiliated faculty member with the department of computer science.[2]
Esther Arkin | |
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Tel Aviv University Stanford University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer science |
Institutions | Stony Brook University Cornell University |
Doctoral advisor | Christos Papadimitriou |
Arkin graduated from Tel Aviv University in 1981. She earned a master's degree at Stanford University in 1983,[2] and completed her Ph.D. at Stanford in 1986. Her doctoral dissertation, Complexity of Cycle and Path Problems in Graphs, was supervised by Christos Papadimitriou.[3] After working as a visiting professor at Cornell University, she joined the Stony Brook faculty in 1991.[2]