Éva Tardos is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University and is one of the most influential leaders in the field of theoretical computer science. She has authored more than 100 publications on topics including approximation algorithm and algorithm design for optimization problems as well as network planning and design. Her honors include receiving the IEEE John von Neumann Medal, the Fulkerson Prize, the George B. Dantzig Prize, the Van Wijngaarden Award, and the Gödel Prize.
From 2015 until 2021, she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the ACM (JACM), ACM’s flagship journal covering the most significant work on the principles of computer science. Tardos was recently named the 2022–2023 ACM Athena Lecturer for fundamental research contributions to combinatorial optimization, approximation algorithms, and algorithmic game theory, and for her dedicated mentoring and service to these communities.