Samantha Kleinberg

About me

I'm the Farber Chair Professor in the Computer Science department at Stevens Institute of Technology.

After completing my PhD in Computer Science at NYU, I spent two years as a postdoctoral Computing Innovation Fellow at Columbia University, in the Department of Biomedical Informatics. Before that I was an undergraduate at NYU in Computer Science and Physics, and I spent a year on sabbatical in the psychology department of University College London.

I've written an academic book, Causality, Probability, and Time, and another for a wider audience, Why: A Guide To Finding and Using Causes. I'm the editor of Time and Causality Across the Sciences.

We are primarily motivated by trying to improve human health, through the development of artificial intelligence methods. Most of these problems come back to the question of why things happen or how they change, so we focus on causal inference and time series data. We look at both clinical data as well as data generated outside of hospitals and aim to support both medical providers and patients in their decision making. Key application areas include stroke, diabetes, and nutrition.

Lab members

Aishat Toye (PhD student), Yiheng Shen (PhD student), Shreyoshi Ghosh (PhD student), Brayden Abo (Undergraduate student)

Our mascot is the Honey Badger, for obvious reasons.

Recent courses

Spring 2026 Health Informatics [CS-544]
Fall 2025 Causal Inference [CS-582]

Current Funding

NIH U54, John Templeton Foundation