Philip N. Klein

Philip N. Klein
NationalityAmerican
EducationHarvard University (BA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Occupations
  • Computer scientist
  • professor

Philip N. Klein is an American computer scientist and professor at Brown University. His research focuses on algorithms for optimization problems in graphs.  

Klein is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and a recipient of the National Science Foundation's Presidential Young Investigator Award (1991). He is a recipient of Brown University's Philip J. Bray Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Sciences (2007) and was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University (2015–16). He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard with an A.B. in Applied Mathematics and earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science at MIT.