Primary Job Title Professor Primary Organization Princeton University
Location Princeton, New Jersey, United States Regions East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Male
Robert Sedgewick has been a professor of computer science at Princeton University since 1985, where he was the founding chair of the Department of Computer Science and is now the William O. Baker Professor of Computer Science.
From 1975 to 1985, he served on the faculty at Brown University. Sedgewick has held visiting research positions at
Xerox PARC in Palo Alto, California; the Institute for Defense Analyses in Princeton, New Jersey; and Inria in Rocquencourt, France.
He regularly serves on journal editorial boards and organizing program committees of conferences and workshops on data structures and the analysis of algorithms held throughout the world. Sedgewick's research interests include mathematical analysis of algorithms, design of data structures and algorithms, and program visualization.
He is widely published in these areas and is the author of several books. His latest books are An Introduction to Programming in Java: An Interdisciplinary Approach" (with Kevin Wayne), Analytic Combinatorics (with Philippe Flajolet), and a new 4th edition of "Algorithms," the latest in a series that has sold over half a million copies.Sedgewick holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University.
