Leslie Valiant#
| Membership Number: | 5082 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://people.seas.harvard.edu/~valiant |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2001 T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor, Harvard University
- 1982 - 2001 Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Harvard University
- 1977 - 1982 Lecturer, Reader, Computer Science Department, Edinburgh University
- 1974 - 1976 Lecturer, Centre for Computer Studies, Leeds University
- 1973 - 1974 Visiting Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Carnegie-Mellon University
Fields of Scholarship
- Possibilities and limitations of Darwinian evolution
- Complexity theory
- Theoretical computer science
- Artificial intelligence
- Learning theory
- Computational neuroscience
- Parallel computing and routing
Honours and Awards
- 1985 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 1986 Nevanlinna Prize
- 1991 Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
- 1992 Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence
- 1997 Knuth Prize
- 2001 Member of the US National Academy of Sciences
- 2008 EATCS (European Association for Theoretical Computer Science) Award
- 2008 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2010 ACM Turing Award
- 2013 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
- 2013 Multiple honorary degrees from European Universities, and appointed Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge
