Leslie Valiant - Curriculum Vitae#

Education:

• 1967 - 1970 B.A. in Mathematics, King's College, Cambridge
  
• 1970 - 1971 Diploma in Computing Science, Imperial College, London
  
• 1971 - 1973 Ph.D. (1974) in Computer Science, Warwick University. Advisor: Michael Paterson

Employment:

• Visiting Assistant Professor at Carnegie-Mellon University (1973 - 1974)
  
• Lecturer at Leeds University (1974 - 1976)
  
• Lecturer, Reader at Edinburgh University (1977 - 1982)
  
• Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University (1982 - 2001)
  
• Visiting Research Fellow at Merton College and Computing Laboratory, Oxford University (1987 - 1988)
  
• T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor, Harvard University (2001 - present)

Awards:

• 1985 - 1986 Guggenheim Fellowship
  
• 1986 Nevanlinna Prize (International Mathematical Union)
  
• 1997 Knuth Prize
  
• 2008 EATCS Award (European Association for Theoretical Computer Science)
  
• 2010 Turing Award

Professional Societies:

• 1991 Fellow of the Royal Society
  
• 1992 Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence
  
• 2001 Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  
• 2008 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  
• 2013 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery

Honorary Degrees:

• 2012 Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon, Docteur honoris causa
  
• 2013 University of Warwick, Hon DSc (Honorary Doctor of Science)
  
• 2013 University of Waterloo, DMath (Doctor of Mathematics honoris causa)
  
• 2018 University of Leeds, Doctor of Science (Engineering), honoris causa

Honorary Appointments:

• 2013 - Honorary Fellow, King's College, Cambridge
  

Books:

Circuits of the Mind. Oxford University Press, New York, 1994.
Paperback edition with new preface: 2000. Japanese translation: 1997.

Probably Approximately Correct: Nature's Algorithms for Learning and Prospering in a Complex World.
Basic Books, New York, 2013.

Three US patents on parallel computing.

About 100 scientific publications. More information including a full cv is available at https://people.seas.harvard.edu/~valiant