János Komlós (mathematician)


János Komlós is a Hungarian-American mathematician, working in probability theory and discrete mathematics. He has been a professor of mathematics at Rutgers University since 1988. He graduated from the Eötvös Loránd University, then became a fellow at the Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Between 1984-1988 he worked at the University of California, San Diego.

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Komlós received his Ph.D. in 1967 from Eötvös Loránd University under the supervision of Alfréd Rényi. In 1975 he received the Alfréd Rényi Prize, a prize established for researchers of the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics. In 1998 he was elected as an external member to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.