Professor

Endre Szemerédi

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
Elected
2022

Endre Szemerédi is Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers University. Szemerédi is a mathematician working in the field of combinatorics and theoretical computer science. He has made a number of discoveries in combinatorics and computer science, including Szemerédi's theorem, the Szemerédi regularity lemma, the Erdős–Szemerédi theorem, the Hajnal–Szemerédi theorem and the Szemerédi–Trotter theorem. He has published over 200 scientific articles in the fields of discrete mathematics, theoretical computer science, arithmetic combinatorics and discrete geometry.

Szemerédi has won numerous awards and honors for his contribution to mathematics and computer science, including the Abel Prize, the Rolf Schock Prize, and the AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research. He is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Institute for Advanced Study, and holds professor emeritus status at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

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