Lance Fortnow

Lance Fortnow
BornAugust 15, 1963 (1963-08-15) (age 62)
Alma materCornell University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known forInteractive proofs
AwardsACM Fellow, NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow, Fulbright Scholar, Nerode Prize
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsIllinois Institute of Technology
Georgia Tech
Northwestern University
University of Chicago
Doctoral advisor
Michael Sipser
Doctoral students
Carsten Lund
Websitehttp://lance.fortnow.com/
http://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/

Lance Jeremy Fortnow (born August 15, 1963) is a computer scientist known for major results in computational complexity and interactive proof systems. Since 2019, he has been at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he is currently professor in computer science. He served as the founding dean of the College of Computing from June 2020 to June 2025.

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