Prof. Dr. Leonid Levin

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsTheoretical Computer Science

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityBoston
InstitutionBoston University
InstituteDepartment of Computer Science
Homepagehttp://www.cs.bu.edu/fac/lnd/

Host during sponsorship

Priv. Doz. Dr. Wolfgang MerkleInstitut für Informatik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg
Start of initial sponsorship01/06/2010

Programme(s)

2010Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Levin is an internationally leading researcher in theoretical computer science. He is one of the co-founders of the theory of NP completeness, which today is part of the basic curriculum of virtually every computer science programme around the globe. Furthermore, he founded the theory of average case complexity and made fundamental contributions in areas such as algorithmic randomness, Kolmogorov complexity, interactive proof systems and cryptography. In Germany, he will work on algorithmic randomness and its relations to pseudorandomness.