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Éva Tardos

Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science
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Éva Tardos is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science. Her research interests include algorithms and algorithmic game theory, the subarea of theoretical computer science theory of designing and analyzing systems, and algorithms for selfish users. Her research focuses on algorithms and games on networks and simple auctions. She is most known for her work on quantifying the efficiency of selfish routing. Tardos received her Dipl.Math. and Ph.D. from Eötvös University, in Hungary. She has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the recipient of a number of fellowships and awards including the Packard Fellowship and the IEEE von Neumann Medal.

Research Website
Tardos' Website
Research areas
Economics + Information
Network Science
Computational Social Sciences
Theory of Computing
Contact

(607) 255-0984

eva.tardos@cornell.edu
Location
Gates Hall 316
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Faculty (Department)
Computer Science
Faculty (Field)
Information Science

Awards

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Sloan Research Fellowship

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Éva Tardos
  • Research
  • 1991

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Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Éva Tardos
  • Research
  • 1995

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National Academy of Sciences Member

National Academy of Sciences
Éva Tardos
  • Prominent
  • 2013

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National Academy of Engineering Member

National Academy of Engineering
Éva Tardos
  • Service
  • 2007

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IEEE John von Neumann Medal

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Éva Tardos
  • Research
  • 2019

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Guggenheim Fellowship

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Éva Tardos
  • Prominent
  • 1999

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Gödel Prize

European Association for Theoretical Computer Science
Éva Tardos
  • Prominent
  • 2012

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Delbert Ray Fulkerson Prize

Mathematical Optimization Society and the American Mathematical Society
Éva Tardos
  • Research
  • 1998

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Donald E. Knuth Prize

ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) and the IEEE Technical Committee on the Mathematical Foundations of Computing (TCMF)
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  • Prominent
  • 2023

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