Éva Tardos

Éva Tardos is a Professor at Cornell University and Chair of the Department of Computer Science. She previously served as Associate Dean for Diversity & Inclusion and Diversity Lead for Computing and Information Sciences at Cornell.

Educated in Hungary, she earned a Diploma and Ph.D. in Mathematics from Eötvös University, Budapest, and a Candidate degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Her research lies at the intersection of theoretical computer science, economics, and network design. She pioneered algorithmic game theory, introduced foundational work on selfish routing and mechanism design, and developed strongly polynomial-time algorithms for minimum-cost flow problems. Her approximation algorithms for network design problems have applications in facility location, social networks, and resource allocation.

• Awards & Honors:
  • ACM Athena Lecturer Award (2022)
  • ACM Fellow (1998)
  • IEEE John von Neumann Medal
  • Fulkerson Prize
  • George B. Dantzig Prize
  • Van Wijngaarden Award
  • Gödel Prize
  • Fellow of INFORMS, SIAM, AMS, and the Game Theory Society
  • Elected member of National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, and National Academy of Arts and Science

As an educator, she co-authored the widely used textbook Algorithm Design and co-edited Algorithmic Game Theory. Her mentorship has shaped numerous leaders in algorithms and economics & computation. She has held editorial leadership roles, including Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the ACM, and served as program chair for major conferences.