Esther M. (Estie) Arkin (Hebrew: אסתר ארקין) is an Israeli–American mathematician and computer scientist whose research interests include operations research, computational geometry, combinatorial optimization, and the design and analysis of algorithms.
She is a professor of applied mathematics and statistics at Stony Brook University.
At Stony Brook, she also directs the undergraduate program in applied mathematics and statistics,[1] and is an affiliated faculty member with the department of computer science.
Her doctoral dissertation, Complexity of Cycle and Path Problems in Graphs, was supervised by Christos Papadimitriou.
[3] After working as a visiting professor at Cornell University, she joined the Stony Brook faculty in 1991.