HISTORICAL FACTS

Women in the History of Computing Technology

Eva Tardos

Eva Tardos is a Hungarian mathematician, winner of the Fulkerson Prize (1988), professor, and chair of the Computer Science Department at Cornell University.

Eva Tardos was born in Hungary in 1957. After earning her Ph.D. at Eötvös University in Budapest, Hungary in 1984, she holds a Humboldt Fellowship at the University of Bonn and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley. In the beriod from 1986 to 1987, she returns to Eötvös on a fellowship from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

After spending two years of teaching as a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tardos joins the Computer Science faculty at Cornell University in 1989. Meanwhile, she also becomes a member of the graduate field of Operations Research. Her research interests include design and analysis of algorithms for solving problems on graphs and networks. Although she is best known for her outstanding performance on network-flow and network-approximation algorithms, her recent work focuses entirely on algorithmic game theory.

Eva Tardos wins the Fulkerson Prize in 1988. It represents a distinguished honors awarded to a small number of eminent scientists jointly by the Mathematical Programming Society and the American Mathematical Society. For her contributions to computing, Tardos is further granted an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (1991 – 1993), a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award (1991 – 1996), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1999 – 2000), and the David and Lucille Packard Foundation Fellowship in Science and Engineering (1990 – 1995).

Eva Tardos is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an ACM Fellow. She is editor-in-chief of SIAM Journal on Computing, and participates on the editorial board of the Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).


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