Neal Young

Neal Young is teaching professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University, where he teaches algorithms and conducts research in approximation algorithms. Young earned his undergraduate degree from Cornell University before completing his Ph.D. in computer science at Princeton University, where his fellowship began in 1986. His research has contributed to the theory and practice of approximation algorithms—algorithms that efficiently find near-optimal solutions to computationally hard optimization problems—with particular contributions to online algorithms and scheduling.