Tamás Terlaky is a Hungarian-Canadian-American professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Lehigh University.

He studied Mathematics and Operations Research at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary.

[4][5][6] The theory of oriented matroids has also been used by Terlaky and Zhang (1991) to prove that their criss-cross algorithms have finite termination for linear programming problems.

[8] In 2020, Terlaky, along with Luis Zuluaga and Boris Defourny, was the recipient of a large quantum computing research grant from DARPA.

Terlaky has been elected as: In 2017, he was awarded the 2017 Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice for helping to improve algorithmic efficiency at the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections by creating the unique Inmate Assignment Decision Support System (IADSS).