Cristian Calude

Cristian Calude
Calude in 2011
Born (1952-04-21) 21 April 1952
NationalityRomanian
Alma materUniversity of Bucharest
Known forAlgorithmic Information Theory and Quantum Theory contributions
Scientific career
FieldsMathematician
InstitutionsUniversity of Auckland, Academia Europaea
Thesis 1977
Doctoral advisorSolomon Marcus
Websitecalude.net/cristianscalude/about/

Cristian Sorin Calude (born 21 April 1952) is a New Zealand mathematician and computer scientist.[1]

Biography

After graduating from the Vasile Alecsandri National College in Galați, he studied at the University of Bucharest, where he was student of Grigore C. Moisil and Solomon Marcus.[2] Calude received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Bucharest under the direction of Solomon Marcus in 1977.[3]

He is currently chair professor at the University of Auckland,[4] New Zealand and also the founding director of the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science.[5] Visiting professor in many universities in Europe, North and South America, Australasia, South Africa, including Monbusho Visiting professor, JAIST, 1999 and visiting professor ENS, Paris, 2009, École Polytechnique, Paris, 2011; visiting fellow, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, 2012; guest professor, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, 2017–2020; visiting fellow ETH Zurich, 2019. Former professor at the University of Bucharest. Calude is author or co-author of more than 270 research articles and 8 books,[6] and is cited by more than 550 authors.[7] He is known for research in algorithmic information theory, quantum computing, discrete mathematics and the history and philosophy of computation.[8]

In 2017, together with Sanjay Jain, Bakhadyr Khoussainov, Wei Li, and Frank Stephan, he announced an algorithm for deciding parity games in quasipolynomial time.[9] Their result was presented by Bakhadyr Khoussainov at the Symposium on Theory of Computing 2017[10] and won a Best Paper Award.[11]

Calude was awarded the National Order of Faithful Service in the degree of Knight[12] by the President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis, in June 2019.

In 2021, together with Sanjay Jain, Bakhadyr Khoussainov, Wei Li, and Frank Stephan, he won the EATCS Nerode Prize[13] for their quasipolynomial time algorithm for deciding parity games.

Distinctions and prizes

Selected bibliography

Articles

  • Calude, Cristian S.; Svozil, Karl (2024). "Binary Quantum Random Number Generator Based on Value Indefinite Observables". Scientific Reports. 14. doi:10.1038/s41598-024-62566-2. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 11150379.
  • Agüero Trejo, José Manuel; Calude, Cristian S. (2023). "Photonic ternary quantum random number generators". Proc. R. Soc. A. 479 (2273). doi:10.1098/rspa.2022.0543.
  • Calude, Cristian S.; Heidar, Shahrokh; Sifakis, Joseph (2023). "What perceptron neural networks are (not) good for?". Information Sciences. 621: IS–844–IS-188. doi:10.1016/j.ins.2022.11.083.
  • Calude, Cristian S.; Jain, Sanjay; Khoussainov, Bakhadyr; Li, Wei; Stephan, Frank (2022). "Deciding Parity Games in Quasi-polynomial Time". SIAM Journal on Computing. 51 (2): STOC17–152–STOC17-188. doi:10.1137/17M1145288. hdl:2292/31757. ISSN 0097-5397.
  • Abbott, Alastair A.; Calude, Cristian S.; Dinneen, Michael J.; Hua, Richard (2019). "A hybrid quantum-classical paradigm to mitigate embedding costs in quantum annealing". International Journal of Quantum Information. 17 (5): 1950042–1950453. arXiv:1803.04340. Bibcode:2019IJQI...1750042A. doi:10.1142/S0219749919500424. ISSN 0219-7499.
  • Abbott, Alastair A; Calude, Cristian S; Dinneen, Michael J; Huang, Nan (1 April 2019). "Experimentally probing the algorithmic randomness and incomputability of quantum randomness". Physica Scripta. 94 (4): 045103. arXiv:1806.08762. Bibcode:2019PhyS...94d5103A. doi:10.1088/1402-4896/aaf36a. ISSN 0031-8949.
  • Calude, Cristian S.; Dumitrescu, Monica (7 June 2018). "A probabilistic anytime algorithm for the halting problem". Computability. 7 (2–3): 259–271. doi:10.3233/COM-170073.
  • Calude, Cristian S.; Staiger, Ludwig (2018). "Liouville, Computable, Borel Normal and Martin-Löf Random Numbers". Theory of Computing Systems. 62 (7): 1573–1585. doi:10.1007/s00224-017-9767-8. ISSN 1432-4350.
  • Calude, Cristian S.; Staiger, Ludwig; Stephan, Frank (2016). "Finite state incompressible infinite sequences". Information and Computation. 247: 23–36. doi:10.1016/j.ic.2015.11.003. hdl:2292/21343.
  • Calude, Cristian S.; Longo, Giuseppe (2017). "The Deluge of Spurious Correlations in Big Data" (PDF). Foundations of Science. 22 (3): 595–612. doi:10.1007/s10699-016-9489-4. ISSN 1233-1821.
  • Abbott, Alastair A.; Calude, Cristian S.; Svozil, Karl (1 October 2015). "A variant of the Kochen-Specker theorem localising value indefiniteness". Journal of Mathematical Physics. 56 (10): 102201. arXiv:1503.01985. Bibcode:2015JMP....56j2201A. doi:10.1063/1.4931658. ISSN 0022-2488.
  • Calude, Cristian S.; Calude, Elena; Dinneen, Michael J. (9 March 2015). "Guest Column: Adiabatic Quantum Computing Challenges". ACM SIGACT News. 46 (1): 40–61. doi:10.1145/2744447.2744459. ISSN 0163-5700.
  • Abbott, Alastair A.; Calude, Cristian S.; Svozil, Karl (10 March 2014). "Value-indefinite observables are almost everywhere". Physical Review A. 89 (3): 032109-032116. arXiv:1309.7188. Bibcode:2014PhRvA..89c2109A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.89.032109. ISSN 1050-2947.
  • Calude, Cristian S.; Dinneen, Michael J.; Dumitrescu, Monica; Svozil, Karl (6 August 2010). "Experimental evidence of quantum randomness incomputability". Physical Review A. 82 (2): 022102. arXiv:1004.1521. Bibcode:2010PhRvA..82b2102C. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.82.022102. ISSN 1050-2947.
  • Calude, Cristian S.; Stay, Michael A. (2008). "Most programs stop quickly or never halt". Advances in Applied Mathematics. 40 (3): 295–308. arXiv:cs/0610153. doi:10.1016/j.aam.2007.01.001.
  • Calude, C. S.; Chaitin, G. J. (1999). "Randomness everywhere". Nature. 400 (6742): 319–320. doi:10.1038/22435. ISSN 0028-0836.

Books

Notes

  1. ^ Publications at DBLP
  2. ^ "Cristian S. Calude: Vitae". Retrieved 4 September 2021.
  3. ^ Cristian Calude at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ "Staff profile page at the university of Auckland". www.cs.auckland.ac.nz.
  5. ^ "Research Groups – CDMTCS". www.cs.auckland.ac.nz.
  6. ^ "Calude Calude's books at Amazon". www.amazon.com.
  7. ^ "Calude's citations". www.cs.auckland.ac.nz.
  8. ^ Marcus, Solomon (2012). "The Art of Reaching the Age of Sixty". In Dinneen, M. J.; Khoussainov, B.; Nies, A. (eds.). Computation, Physics and Beyond. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 7160. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 1–19. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-27654-5_1. ISBN 978-3-642-27653-8.
  9. ^ "Deciding Parity Games in Quasipolynomial Time" (PDF). Retrieved 20 August 2022.
  10. ^ "STOC 2017 Accepted Papers" (PDF). Retrieved 20 August 2022.
  11. ^ "ACM SIGACT – STOC Best Paper Award". www.sigact.org.
  12. ^ a b "Decret de decorare semnat de Președintele României, domnul Klaus Iohannis".
  13. ^ IPEC Nerode Prize
  14. ^ https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Calude_Cristian Cristian S. Calude
  15. ^ Chita, Efi. "Nerode Prize". Eatcs.
  16. ^ "SIGMA XI".