László Babai
László Babai | |
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Babai at Oberwolfach in 2011 | |
| Born | July 20, 1950 Budapest, Hungary |
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| Alma mater | Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
| Awards | Gödel Prize (1993) Knuth Prize (2015) Dijkstra Prize (2016) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science, Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Chicago |
| Doctoral advisor | Pál Turán Vera T. Sós |
| Doctoral students | Mario 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.