Michael Henry Albert (born September 20, 1962) is a mathematician and computer scientist, originally from Canada, and currently a professor in the computer science department at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.
His varied research interests include combinatorics and combinatorial game theory.
In that year Albert received the Rhodes Scholarship, and he completed his D. Phil.
Together with J.P. Grossman and Richard Nowakowski, Albert invented the game Clobber.
[3] Another significant topic of his research has been permutation patterns.