It’s exciting times for theory at Stanford these days, with more activity than ever.  In the computer science department alone, we’ve hired six new theory faculty over the past three years:

• Moses Charikar joined in Fall 2015.
• Omer Reingold and Mary Wootters joined in Fall 2016.
• And we have three brand-new hires: Tengyu Ma (joint with Statistics), starting in the fall; and Aviad Rubinstein and Li-Yang Tan, both starting in 2018.

(Greg Valiant, who’s been here all of four years, now counts as an old-timer.)

Meanwhile, our MS&E department recently hired Aaron Sidford, who started in Fall 2016 and also holds a courtesy appointment in computer science, and our math department hired Jan Vondrak!

We’ve also started a new theory postdoc program, the Motwani Postdoctoral Fellowship.  We have four postdocs starting next year: Clément Canonne, Rad Niazadeh, Alistair Stewart, and Avishay Tal.

Welcome to all the new members of the Stanford theory group!