# Leslie Valiant

> Leslie Valiant is the inventor of the Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) learning framework, which provided the first rigorous mathematical foundation for machine learning. He introduced the permanent of a matrix as a #P-complete problem and received the Turing Award in 2010 and the Nevanlinna Prize.

*Source: [https://selltoscientists.com/researchers/leslie-valiant/](https://selltoscientists.com/researchers/leslie-valiant/)*

**Institution:** Harvard University
**Field:** Theoretical Computer Science
**H-index:** 78
**Publications:** 180
**Grants:** 22
**Patents:** 3
**ORCID:** `0000-0002-1650-4024`

## Industry collaborations

- IBM Research
- Microsoft Research

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