Wojciech Szpankowski is the Saul Rosen Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University where he teaches and conducts research in analysis of algorithms, information theory, analytic combinatorics, random structures, and machine learning for classical and quantum data. He has received the Inaugural Arden L. Bement Jr. Award (2015) and the Flajolet Lecture Prize (2020), among others. In 2021, he was elected to the Academia Europaea. In 2008, he launched the interdisciplinary Institute for Science of Information, and in 2010, he became the Director of the NSF Science and Technology Center for Science of Information.
