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Biography
Michael A. Bender is the John L. Hennessy Chaired Professor of Computer Science at Stony Brook University. He was Founder and Chief Scientist at Tokutek, Inc, an enterprise database company, which was acquired by Percona in 2014.
Bender received his B.A. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1992 and obtained a D.E.A. in Computer Science from the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France in 1993. He completed a Ph.D. on Scheduling Algorithms from Harvard University in 1998. He has held Visiting Scientist positions at both MIT and King's College London. He is a Fellow of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Research interests
Bender's research interests span the areas of data structures and algorithms, I/O-efficient computing, scheduling, and parallel computing. He has coauthored over 200 articles on these and other topics.
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PhD, Computer Science, Harvard University
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Collaborative Research: III: Graph-based Vector Databases, from Theory to Practice
Bender, M. A. (PI)
07/15/26 → 06/30/30
Project: Research
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Learning-Augmented Algorithmic Guardrails for AI-Based Mission Scheduling
Bender, M. A. (PI)
10/27/25 → 09/30/27
Project: Research
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NSF-BSF: Collaborative Research: AF: Small: Algorithmic Performance through History Independence
Bender, M. A. (PI)
05/1/23 → 04/30/27
Project: Research
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CSR: Medium: Approximate Membership Query Data Structure in Computational Biology and Storage
Bender, M. A. (PI) & Ferdman, M. (CoPI)
10/1/22 → 08/31/24
Project: Research
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Fast Concurrent Primitives Despite Contention
Bender, M. A., Blelloch, G. E., Farach-Colton, M., Hu, Y., Johnson, R., Oshman, R. & Zhou, R., Jul 8 2026, Proceedings of the 38th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures, SPAA 26. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 196-233 38 p. (Annual ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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History-Independent Load Balancing
Bender, M. A., Kuszmaul, W., Shi, E. & Silver, R., 2026, Proceedings of the 2026 Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, SODA 2026. Larsen, K. G. & Saha, B. (eds.). Association for Computing Machinery, p. 1097-1127 31 p. (Proceedings of the Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms; vol. 2026-January).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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Mitigating False Positives in Filters: To Adapt or to Cache?
Mo, T., Bender, M. A., Das, R., Farach-Colton, M. & Tench, D., Mar 27 2026, In: ACM Transactions on Database Systems. 51, 3, 17.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Contention resolution with message deadlines
Agrawal, K., Bender, M. A., Fineman, J. T., Gilbert, S. & Young, M., Dec 2025, In: Distributed Computing. 38, 4, p. 337-355 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Don't Melt Your Cache: Low-Associativity with Heat-Sink
Bender, M. A., Conway, A., Delayo, D., Farach-Colton, M., Han, J., He, L., Johnson, R., Kannan, S., Kuszmaul, W., Porter, D. & West, E., Jul 16 2025, SPAA 2025 - Proceedings of the 2025 37th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 555-565 11 p. (Annual ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
Open Access1 Scopus citations