Éva Tardos

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Éva Tardos, mathematician, (born 1957, Hungary) winner of the Fulkerson Prize (1988), professor and chair of Computer Science department at Cornell University.

Research Interests:

• Design and analysis of algorithms for fundamental problems in network and combinatorial optimization;
• Approximation algorithms,
• On-line algorithms,
• Linear and integer programming,
• Algorithmic game theory.

[edit] Education

• Dipl. Math, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary (1981)
• Ph.D., Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary (1984)

[edit] Honors/Awards

• Member of National Academy of Engineering (2007)
• George B. Dantzig Prize (2006)
• Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• ACM Fellow (1998)
• Guggenheim Fellow
• Packard Fellow
• Sloan Fellow
• NSF Presidential Young Investigator
• Fulkerson Prize (1988)

While co-teaching a class with Jon Kleinberg students made anagrams for their names. They entered the class said "Kleinberg is Rebel King and Tardos is Astro Dave."

[edit] External links/References

• Cornell University: Eva Tardos, Department of Computer Science