Dieter van Melkebeek Professor

Research Interests:

Theory of Computing, Computational Complexity.

Biography

Dieter van Melkebeek obtained his undergraduate degree in Computer Science Engineering and Applied Mathematics from the KU Leuven (Belgium) and his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Chicago. After a postdoctoral position at DIMACS and the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), he joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he currently is a full professor of Computer Sciences. He held visiting appointments at CWI (Amsterdam), the Fields Institute (Toronto), Humboldt Universitaet (Berlin), MSRI (Berkeley), and the Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel).

Dieter van Melkebeek received the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award and an NSF Career Award. He serves on the editorials boards of SIAM Journal on Computing, Computational Complexity, ACM Transactions on Computation Theory, and Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity, and chairs the steering committee of the Conference on Computational Complexity.