About Éva Tardos
Éva Tardos (Hungarian: [ˈtɒrdoʃ]; born 1 October 1957) is a Hungarian mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University, known for her work in theoretical computer science. For her work, she has received the Fulkerson Prize (1988), the Dantzig Prize (2006), and the IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2019). Tardos's research interest is algorithms and algorithmic game theory. Her work focuses on the design and analysis of efficient methods for combinatorial optimization problems on graphs or networks. She has done some work on network flow algorithms like approximation algorithms for network flows, cut, and clustering problems. Her recent work focuses on algorithmic game theory and simple auctions. == Education and career == Tardos received her Dipl. Math in 1981 and her Ph.D. 1984 from the Faculty of Sciences of the Eötvös Loránd University under her advisor András Frank. She was the Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Cornell from 2006 to 2010, and she is currently serving as the Associate Dean of the College of Computing and Information Science. She was editor-in-chief of SIAM Journal on Computing from 2004 to 2009, and from 2015 until 2021, she was editor-in-chief of the Journal of the ACM (JACM).
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