Robert Sedgewick (computer scientist)

Robert Sedgewick
Sedgewick in 2020
Born	(1946-12-20) December 20, 1946 (age 78) Willimantic, Connecticut, United States
Alma mater	Brown University
Awards	ACM Fellow (1997), Flajolet Prize, Leroy P. Steele Prize, and Karlstrom Award
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	Princeton University Brown University (1975–85)
Thesis	Quicksort (1975)
Doctoral advisor	Donald Knuth

Robert Sedgewick (born December 20, 1946) is an American computer scientist. He is the founding chair and the William O. Baker Professor in Computer Science at Princeton University^[1] and was a member of the board of directors of Adobe Systems (1990–2016).^[2] He previously served on the faculty at Brown University and has held visiting research positions at Xerox PARC, Institute for Defense Analyses, and INRIA.^[3] His research expertise is in algorithm science, data structures, and analytic combinatorics. He is also active in developing college curriculums in computer science.^[4]