Sheldon Jacobson

Sheldon  Jacobson

Contact Information

3224 Siebel Center for Computer Science
201 N. Goodwin Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801

Research Areas

Professor, Dept. of Computer Science

Additional Campus Affiliations

Founder Professor, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
Professor, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor, Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering
Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences
Professor, Mathematics
Professor, Statistics

Recent Publications

Crumpacker, J. B., Hornberger, Z. T., & Jacobson, S. H. (2026). Generalizations of the Sock matching problem. IISE Transactions, 58(10), 1238-1253. https://doi.org/10.1080/24725854.2026.2637909

Deshpande, S., Garg, N., & Jacobson, S. (2026). Simpler than you think: the practical dynamics of ranked choice voting. Journal of Computational Social Science, 9(2), Article 40. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42001-026-00470-7

Dobbs, K. W., King, D. M., & Jacobson, S. H. (2026). Finding Shortest Flip Sequences Between Connected Graph Partitions. INFORMS Journal on Optimization, 8(2), 163-184. https://doi.org/10.1287/ijoo.2024.0050

Hornberger, Z. T., King, D. M., & Jacobson, S. H. (2026). Temporal analysis of the clustering and hypothesized social contagion of mass killing events in the United States. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 103, Article 102349. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2025.102349

Deshpande, S., Ludden, I. G., & Jacobson, S. H. (2025). Bias in the ballot: how votemandering exploits gerrymandering and campaign strategies. Annals of Operations Research, 352(1-2), 121-168. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-025-06748-9

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