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Professor

Leslie G. Valiant

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Computer Sciences
Elected
2022

Leslie G. Valiant is T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He is known for transformative contributions to the theory of computation, including the theory of probably approximately correct learning, the complexity of enumeration and algebraic computation, and the theory of parallel and distributed computing.

The author of the books Circuits of the Mind and Probably Approximately Correct, Valiant has been awarded the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize, the Knuth Prize, and the A. M. Turing Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Valiant received is Ph.D. in computer science from Warwick University.

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