[1] Gábor Tardos received his PhD in Mathematics from Eötvös University, Budapest in 1988.

From 2005 to 2013, he served as a Canada Research Chair of discrete and computational geometry at Simon Fraser University.

He then returned to Budapest to the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics where he has served as a research fellow since 1991.

[2] Tardos started with a result in universal algebra: he exhibited a maximal clone of order-preserving operations that is not finitely generated.

[5] He received a Lendület Grant from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2009)[6] specifically devised to keep outstanding researchers in Hungary.

[7] In 2020, he received the Gödel Prize for the algorithmic version of the Lovász local lemma that he developed together with Robin Moser.

[8] In 2018, Tardos was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro.