Stony Brook Faculty Directory
Michael BenderProfessorComputer ScienceCollege of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Biography
Michael Bender’s research interests span the areas of data structures and algorithms, I/O-efficient computing, scheduling, databases, and parallel computing. He was Founder and Chief Scientist at an enterprise database company (Tokutek) which was acquired in 2015.
Education
- PhD and BA, Harvard University
- DEA, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
News Highlights
May 5, 2013Michael Bender, Stony Brook University, describes his work on indexing of big data.National Science FoundationRead ArticleNovember 21, 2012Database tech startup Tokutek raises $1.5MBoston Business JournalsRead ArticleMay 7, 2013Big Data Gets Faster Thanks to Research at Rutgers and Stony BrookEd Tech MagazineRead ArticleNovember 26, 2012Database tech startup Tokutek raises $1.5 millionMassLiveNewsRead ArticleOctober 3, 2012NSF Announces Interagency Progress on Administration's Big Data InitiativeNational Science FoundationRead Article