Daniel P. Huttenlocher
Daniel P. Huttenlocher is an American academic administrator and corporate director. He is the inaugural dean of the Schwarzman College of Computing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Previously, he was the inaugural dean and vice provost of Cornell Tech at Cornell University, and a director of Amazon. He joined the department of computer science at Cornell in 1988, and he owned 24 patents in computer vision by 2015.
Before Cornell, Huttenlocher had previously worked at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and was Chief Technology Officer at Intelligent Markets. He has an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and earned his master’s and doctorate degrees from MIT.
In February 2019, he was named by MIT to be the head of its new Schwarzman College of Computing starting in August 2019.
