Professor Daniel Kane has been awarded the 2026 Gödel Prize along with co-authors Ilias Diakonikolas, Gautam Kamath, Jerry Li, Ankur Moitra and Alistair Stewart.  The prize, named in honor of Kurt Gödel, in recognition of his contributions to mathematical logic, is awarded for outstanding papers in the area of theoretical computer science is sponsored jointly by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) and the Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM SIGACT). 

As noted by the award committee, the paper, Robust Estimators in High Dimensions without the Computational Intractability, fundamentally changed (the) understanding of what is algorithmically possible in robust high-dimensional learning.