# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-sipser
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:02:51.694Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-sipser"
name: "Michael Sipser"
slug: "michael-sipser"
description: "Michael Fredric Sipser is an American theoretical computer scientist who has made early contributions to computational complexity theory. He is a professor of applied mathematics and was the dean of science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
tagline: "American mathematician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MIT-Science_Sipser_Michael.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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birthDate: "1954-09-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  75
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://math.mit.edu/directory/profile.php?pid=251"
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    title: "Michael Sipser"
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    title: "Michael Sipser"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump