Eva Tardos

Eva Tardos (born October 1, 1957) is a Hungarian mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University, known for her work in theoretical computer science. She has received the Fulkerson Prize (1988), the Dantzig Prize (2006) and the IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2019). Her research interest is algorithms and algorithmic game theory, focusing on the design and analysis of efficient methods for combinatorial optimization problems on graphs or networks, including network flow algorithms and approximation algorithms for network flows, cuts and clustering problems. Her recent work focuses on algorithmic game theory and simple auctions.