Stuart M. Shieber

Stuart M. Shieber is James O. Welch, Jr. and Virginia B. Welch Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. His primary research field is computational linguistics, the study of human languages from the perspective of computer science. He is the founding director of the Center for Research on Computation and Society and director of Harvard's newly created Office for Scholarly Communication.

Shieber received his undergraduate degree in applied mathematics from Harvard College in 1981, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University in 1989. He was awarded a Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1991, and was named a Presidential Faculty Fellow in 1993, one of only 30 in the country in all areas of science and engineering.