Johan Hastad#
| Membership Number: | 2441 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2007 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.nada.kth.se/~johanh |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1992 Full Professor, computer science, Royal Institute of Technology
- 1988 - 1992 Associate Professor, computer science, Royal Institute of Technology
- 1986 - 1987 Post Doc, Massachussetts Institute of Technology
- 1986 Ph.D from Massachussetts Institute of Technology in mathematics
Fields of Scholarship
- Approximation of NP-hard optimization problems
- Complexity theory
- Cryptograhpy
Honours and Awards
- ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, 1986
- Chester Carlson's research prize, 1990
- Gödel Prize, 1994
- Invited speaker at the ICM, Berlin, 1998
- Göran Gustafsson prize in mathematics, 1999
- Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2001-
- Plenary speaker at the ECM, Stockholm, 2004
- Gödel Prize, 2011
- Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2001
- Member ot he Academia Europaea, 2007
- Member of the board of the school of Computer Science and Communication at KTH, 2005-2011
