Dr. Joseph Halpern

Joseph Halpern is a prolific and award-winning computer scientist and mathematician who is currently the Joseph C. Ford Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University (tenured since 1996). After receiving his PhD from Harvard University in 1981, Halpern joined IBM’s Almaden Research Centre (1982-96) before moving to Cornell. His research interests are in the areas of reasoning about knowledge and uncertainty, security, distributed computation, decision theory and game theory. He has co-authored five patents, three books and hundreds of technical publications, winning a wide range of honours for contributions to his field. Some of his more recent honours include being elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering (2019), being named the Moore Distinguished Scholar at Caltech (2018-19), winning the Kampe de Feriet Award (2016), being elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2015), and being appointed the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Natural Sciences and Engineering at Hebrew University (2009-10).