Larry Finkelstein

Professor Emeritus, Dean Emeritus

  • Physical science
  • Health science
  • Digital arts and business
  • PhD in Mathematics, University of Birmingham — United Kingdom
  • MS in Mathematics, University of Michigan
  • BS in Mathematics, City College of New York

Larry Finkelstein joined the Khoury College of Computer Sciences as a professor in 1983 and served as dean from September 1994 to July 2014. During his time as dean, Khoury College grew significantly in stature and size, achieving prominence as one of the premier computing colleges in the nation.

Prior to joining Northeastern, Finkelstein was a professor of mathematics at Wayne State University in Detroit, as well as a member of the technical staffs of the Center for Communication Research in New Jersey and the MITRE Corporation in Massachusetts.

Finkelstein’s research expertise is in the development of efficient algorithms for solving large-scale computational problems in mathematics, computer science, and engineering. He co-organized two workshops in this area at the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science — an NSF Science and Technology Center — and co-edited the proceedings of those workshops. He was a co-winner of the best paper award at the MITRE Corporation for work in signal processing.