Benjamin C. Pierce
Benjamin C. Pierce is a professor of computer science at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Pierce joined UPenn in 1998 from Indiana University and held research positions at the University of Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1991. His research includes work on programming languages, static type systems, distributed programming, mobile agents, and process calculi. His book "Types and Programming Languages" is widely regarded as one of the finest on the subject.