Allan Borodin

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Allan Borodin
Born1941 (age 8182)
Alma mater Rutgers University
Stevens Institute of Technology
Cornell University
Awards ACM Fellow (2014)
Order of Canada (2020) [1]
Scientific career
Fields Theoretical computer science
Institutions University of Toronto
Thesis Computational Complexity and the Existence of Complexity Gaps (1969)
Doctoral advisor Juris Hartmanis
Website www.cs.toronto.edu/~bor/

Allan Bertram Borodin CM (born 1941) is a Canadian-American computer scientist who is a professor at the University of Toronto. [2] [3]

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Biography

Borodin did his undergraduate studies at Rutgers University, earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1963. After earning a master's degree at the Stevens Institute of Technology in 1966 (while at the same time working part time as a programmer at Bell Laboratories), he continued his graduate studies at Cornell University, completing a doctorate in 1969 under the supervision of Juris Hartmanis. He joined the Toronto faculty in 1969 and was promoted to full professor in 1977. He served as department chair from 1980 to 1985, and became University Professor in 2011. [2] [3] [4]

Awards and honors

Borodin was elected as a member of the Royal Society of Canada in 1991. In 2008 he won the CRM-Fields-PIMS prize. [3] [5] He became a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2011, [6] and a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2014 "For contributions to theoretical computer science in complexity, on-line algorithms, resource tradeoffs, and models of algorithmic paradigms." [7] In 2020 he received the Order of Canada. [8]

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