Samantha Kleinberg / Stevens Institute of Technology

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Bio: Samantha Kleinberg is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science department at Stevens Institute of Technology. After completing her PhD in Computer Science in 2010 at NYU, she spent two years as a postdoctoral Computing Innovation Fellow at Columbia University, in the Department of Biomedical Informatics. Before that she was an undergraduate at NYU in Computer Science and Physics, and more recently spent a year on sabbatical in the psychology department of University College London. Dr. Kleinberg has written an academic book, Causality, Probability, and Time, and another for a wider audience, Why: A Guide To Finding and Using Causes. She is the editor of Time and Causality Across the Sciences.