He is David R. Smith Leading Scholar professor of computer science at Stony Brook University,[1] and a co-founder of storage technology startup company Tokutek.
[2] Bender obtained his PhD in computer science in 1998 from the Harvard University[3] under the supervision of Michael O.
[5] He was program chair of the 19th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA 2006).
[6] The cache-oblivious B-tree data structures studied by Bender, Demaine, and Farach-Colton beginning in 2000 became the basis for the fractal tree index used by Tokutek's products TokuDB and TokuMX.
[2] In 2012 Bender won the Simon Imre Test of Time award at LATIN.