László Babai

László Babai
Babai at Oberwolfach in 2011
Born (1950-07-20) July 20, 1950
Budapest, Hungary
Citizenship
  • Hungary
  • United States
Alma materHungarian Academy of Sciences
AwardsGödel Prize (1993)
Knuth Prize (2015)
Dijkstra Prize (2016)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science, Mathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago
Doctoral advisorPál Turán
Vera T. Sós
Doctoral studentsMario Szegedy
Gábor Tardos
Péter Pál Pálfy
Barry Guiduli

László "Laci" Babai (born July 20, 1950, in Budapest) is a Hungarian-American professor of computer science and mathematics at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on computational complexity theory, algorithms, combinatorics, and finite groups, with an emphasis on the interactions between these fields.