Kenneth W. Regan – Bio

Kenneth W. Regan is a full professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo.  He has worked in Computational Complexity Theory since obtaining his B.A. in 1981 from Princeton University and his doctorate in 1986 from Oxford University,
where he was a Marshall Scholar. He co-writes Richard Lipton’s popular weblog “Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP” and has written with Lipton a textbook on quantum computing for MIT Press. He is an International Master at chess and conducts a second major research program on human decision-making (at chess). Regan has been consulted in major international chess-cheating cases since 2011 and was a charter member in 2013 of the precursor to the International Chess Federation’s Fair Play Commission, for which he now consults. He is married with two children.