| Eric Allender | |
|---|---|
| Residence | U.S. |
| Institutions | Rutgers University |
| Alma mater | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Kimberly King |
| Doctoral students | Samir Datta, Vivek Gore, Michal Koucký, Detlef Ronneburger, Sambuddha Roy, Martin Strauss |
Eric Warren Allender is an American computer scientist active in the field of computational complexity theory. In 2006 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. He is currently a professor at Rutgers University where he chaired the Department of Computer Science from 2006 until 2009.
Allender graduated from the University of Iowa in 1979 with a double major in Computer Science and Theater. He then graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1985.[1]