Stuart Feldman is the head of Schmidt Sciences at the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation, where he advises on a number of scientific activities, arranges grants, and plans new fellowship and engineering programs. Feldman did his academic work in astrophysics and mathematics and earned his AB at Princeton and his PhD at MIT.
He is also a member of the board of directors of the AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business). He received the 2003 ACM Software System Award. He is a fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and AAAS, board chair of the Center for the Minorities and Disabled in IT, and serves on a number of university advisory boards, National Academy panels, and government advisory committees.