Education
Babai studied mathematics at Eötvös Loránd University from 1968 to 1973, received a Doctor of Philosophy from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1975, and received a Doctor of Science from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1984.
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Babai studied mathematics at Eötvös Loránd University from 1968 to 1973, received a Doctor of Philosophy from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1975, and received a Doctor of Science from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1984.
His research focuses on computational complexity theory, algorithms, combinatorics, and finite groups, with an emphasis on the interactions between these fields. He held a teaching position at Eötvös Loránd University since 1971. In 1987 he took joint positions as a professor in algebra at Eötvös Loránd and in computer science at the University of Chicago.
In 1995 he began a joint appointment in the mathematics department at Chicago and gave up his position at Eötvös Loránd.
In 1988, Babai won the Hungarian State Prize, in 1990 he was elected as a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and in 1994 he became a full member. In 1999 the Budapest University of Technology and Economics awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 1993, Babai was awarded the Gödel Prize together with Shafi Goldwasser, Silvio Micali, Shlomo Moran, and Charles Rackoff, for their papers on interactive proof systems In 2015, he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and won the Knuth Prize.
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