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."