Éva Tardos

Éva Tardos, born on 1 October 1957, is a Hungarian mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. She received her diploma in mathematics in 1981 and her doctorate in 1984 from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, where her advisor was András Frank. Her research centres on algorithms and algorithmic game theory, in particular the design and analysis of efficient methods for combinatorial optimization problems on graphs and networks, including network flows, approximation algorithms, cuts and clustering, and more recently simple auctions. She chaired the Cornell computer science department from 2006 to 2010 and edited the SIAM Journal on Computing and the Journal of the ACM. With Jon Kleinberg she wrote the textbook Algorithm Design. Her honours include the Fulkerson Prize, the Dantzig Prize, the Gödel Prize and the IEEE John von Neumann Medal.