Dieter van Melkebeek Associate Professor

Research Interests:

Theory of Computing, Computational Complexity.

Biography

Dieter van Melkebeek obtained an undergraduate degree in Computer Science Engineering and Applied Mathematics from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) and a 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 an associate professor of Computer Sciences. He held visiting appointments at CWI (Amsterdam), the Fields Institute (Toronto), and MSRI (Berkeley).

Dieter van Melkebeek received the 1999 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award and an NSF Career Award. He serves on the editorials boards of SIAM Journal on Computing, Computational Complexity, and ACM Transactions on Computation Theory.