Moshe Vardi

School of CSE Gen. Director | 2017-2024

Rice University

Moshe Y. Vardi is an Israeli mathematician and a computer scientist. He is the George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering at Rice University.

His interests focus on applications of logic to computer science, including database theory, finite-model theory, knowledge in multi-agent systems, computer-aided verification and reasoning, and teaching logic across the curriculum. He is an expert in model checking, constraint satisfaction and database theory, common knowledge (logic), and theoretical computer science.

He is the author and co-author of over 600 papers, as well as two books: Reasoning about Knowledge and Finite Model Theory and Its Applications. He is currently a Senior Editor of the Communications of the ACM, after having served for a decade as Editor-in-Chief.

 

Awards and Honors

 

  • March 1987 Outstanding Innovation Award, Theory of Knowledge, IBM Research
  • March 1989 Outstanding Innovation Award, Automata-Theoretic Approach to Program Verification, IBM Research
  • March 1992 Outstanding Innovation Award, Zero-One Laws, IBM Research
  • May 2000 Gödel Prize (with P. Wolper)
  • February 2002 Member, U.S. National Academy of Engineering
  • October 2002 Member, European Academy of Science
  • October 2002 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • January 2003 Member, Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science
  • July 2004 Fellow, American Association for Artificial Intelligence
  • May 2005 Guggenheim Fellow
  • May 2006 ACM Paris Kanellakis Award for Theory and Practice (w. G. Holzmann, R. Kurshan, and P. Wolper)
  • August 2006 IEEE Symp. on Logic in Computer Science Test-of-Time Award (w. P. Wolper)
  • April 2007 Foreign member, Academia Europaea
  • June 2008 ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award
  • June 2008 ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time-Award (w. P. Kolaitis)
  • June 2008 ACM Presidential Award
  • November 2008 Blaise Pascal Medal, European Academy of Sciences
  • March 2009 EATCS Award for Best ETAPS Paper 2009
  • February 2010 Computing Research Association, Distinguished Service Awards
  • April 2010 ACM Outstanding Contribution Award
  • April 2010 Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences