Haym Hirsh is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at
Cornell University. His research has focused on foundations and
applications of machine learning, data mining, information retrieval,
and artificial intelligence, especially targeting questions that
integrally involve both people and computing. Most recently these
interests have turned to crowdsourcing, human computation, and
collective intelligence. Haym received his BS from the Mathematics
and Computer Science Departments at UCLA and his MS and PhD from the
Computer Science Department at Stanford University. Prior to moving
to Cornell in 2013 to serve as Dean of the Faculty of Computing and
Information Science Haym spent 24 years on the Computer Science
faculty at Rutgers University, and has had visiting positions at AT&T
Labs, Bar-Ilan University, Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, and the
University of Zurich. From 2006-2010 he served as Director of the
Division of Information and Intelligent Systems at the National
Science Foundation. In 2022 he was elected a Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science.