Timothy J. Hickey (born July 24, 1955) is a professor of computer science and former Chair of the Computer Science department (2002-2010), Chair of the Science Council (2009-2010), and Chair of Faculty Senate (2010-2012) at Brandeis University.
Hickey's specialties include analysis of algorithms, logic programming and parallel processing, symbolic manipulation, and groupware. His current research involves the study of Educational Technology, Brain-Computer Interfaces and Game-based Learning. He is the co-creator and lead developer of the JScheme programming language, the GrewpEdit collaborative editor, as well as the Computer-Supported Agile Teaching (CSAT) tool Discovery Teaching.
He studied at Brandeis University, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics in 1977. Subsequently, he attended the University of Chicago, receiving a Masters in 1978 and a Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1986 under advisor Walter Lewis Baily Jr. (On the Fourier-Jacobi Coefficients of Certain Eisenstein Series for a Unitary Group).