Lance Fortnow

| birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = American | fields = Computer science | workplaces = Illinois Institute of Technology
Georgia Tech
Northwestern University
University of Chicago | alma_mater = Cornell University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | doctoral_advisor = Michael Sipser | doctoral_students = Carsten Lund | known_for = Interactive proofs | awards = ACM Fellow, NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow, Fulbright Scholar, Nerode Prize | website = http://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. Provided by Wikipedia