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Cristian S. Calude
Calude in 2011
Born (1952-04-21) 21 April 1952 (age 72)
NationalityRomanian
Alma materUniversity of Bucharest
Known forAlgorithmic Information Theory and Quantum Theory contributions
Scientific career
FieldsMathematician
InstitutionsUniversity of Auckland, Academia Europaea
Thesis 1977
Doctoral advisorSolomon Marcus
Websitecalude.net/cristianscalude/about/

Cristian Sorin Calude (born 21 April 1952) is a Romanian-New Zealander mathematician and computer scientist.[1]

Biography[edit]

After graduating from the Vasile Alecsandri National College in Galați, he studied at the University of Bucharest, where he was student of Grigore C. Moisil and Solomon Marcus.[2] Calude received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Bucharest under the direction of Solomon Marcus in 1977.[3]

He is currently chair professor at the University of Auckland,[4] New Zealand and also the founding director of the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science.[5] Visiting professor in many universities in Europe, North and South America, Australasia, South Africa, including Monbusho Visiting professor, JAIST, 1999 and visiting professor ENS, Paris, 2009, École Polytechnique, Paris, 2011; visiting fellow, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, 2012; guest professor, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, 2017–2020; visiting fellow ETH Zurich, 2019. Former professor at the University of Bucharest. Calude is author or co-author of more than 270 research articles and 8 books,[6] and is cited by more than 550 authors.[7] He is known for research in algorithmic information theory, quantum computing, discrete mathematics and the history and philosophy of computation.[8]

In 2017, together with Sanjay Jain, Bakhadyr Khoussainov, Wei Li, and Frank Stephan, he announced an algorithm for deciding parity games in quasipolynomial time.[9] Their result was presented by Bakhadyr Khoussainov at the Symposium on Theory of Computing 2017[10] and won a Best Paper Award.[11]

Calude was awarded the National Order of Faithful Service in the degree of Knight[12] by the President of Romania, Mr. Klaus Iohannis, in June 2019.

In 2021, together with Sanjay Jain, Bakhadyr Khoussainov, Wei Li, and Frank Stephan, he won the EATCS Nerode Prize[13] for their quasipolynomial time algorithm for deciding parity games.

Distinctions and prizes[edit]

Selected bibliography[edit]

Articles[edit]

Books[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Publications at DBLP
  2. ^ "Cristian S. Calude: Vitae". Retrieved 4 September 2021.
  3. ^ Cristian S. Calude at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ "Staff profile page at the university of Auckland". www.cs.auckland.ac.nz.
  5. ^ "Research Groups - CDMTCS". www.cs.auckland.ac.nz.
  6. ^ "Calude Calude's books at Amazon". www.amazon.com.
  7. ^ "Calude's citations". www.cs.auckland.ac.nz.
  8. ^ Marcus, Solomon (2012). "The Art of Reaching the Age of Sixty". In Dinneen, M. J.; Khoussainov, B.; Nies, A. (eds.). Computation, Physics and Beyond. Vol. 7160. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 1–19. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-27654-5_1. ISBN 978-3-642-27653-8.
  9. ^ "Deciding Parity Games in Quasipolynomial Time" (PDF). Retrieved 20 August 2022.
  10. ^ "STOC 2017 Accepted Papers" (PDF). Retrieved 20 August 2022.
  11. ^ "ACM SIGACT - STOC Best Paper Award". www.sigact.org.
  12. ^ a b "Decret de decorare semnat de Președintele României, domnul Klaus Iohannis".
  13. ^ IPEC Nerode Prize
  14. ^ https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Calude_Cristian Cristian S. Calude
  15. ^ "Nerode Prize".

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