Baruch Schieber

Baruch M. Schieber (; born: December 1958) is a Professor of the Department of Computer Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Director of the Institute for Future Technologies.

Early life and education Baruch Schieber was born in Tel Aviv and was raised in Givatayim (a suburb of Tel Aviv). His father was a bank branch manager and his mother a housemaker. He graduated from Zeitlin High School in 1976.

From 1987 to 1989 Schieber was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Theory of Computation, Mathematical Sciences Department of IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York.

Schieber has been an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Algorithms since the inception of the journal in 2004. He was a guest editor of IBM Journal of Research and Development special issue on Business Optimization, and an associate editor of the Journal of Algorithms from 1998 to 2003. He was also a member of the executive board at the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) until 2018, and continues to serve on its executive committee.

Research and publications Schieber's research work focuses on algorithms, optimization and business analytics. His work includes the development of fast, provably efficient, approximation algorithms for intractable combinatorial optimization problems. For these problems, which defy exhaustive search solutions, searching for near-optimal solutions is a pragmatic and viable strategy. Schieber considered such intractable business optimization problems in areas like scheduling and network design and devised general techniques for solving them.

Two examples for his techniques are: A unified approach to approximating maximum throughput in resource allocation and scheduling, and a divide-and-conquer approximation paradigm for approximating NP-hard graph optimization problems via Spreading Metrics.

Honors and awards Schieber is a recipient of the Israel Defense Prize for major technological contributions to Israeli defense systems in 1984. While at IBM he received eight technical achievement awards for various projects. Forbes, The Economist, Newsweek and more.

Personal life Schieber is married and has two daughters. They live in White Plains, New York.