Fellow at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
Since 1986 he has also been New Jersey Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
Szemerédi has held visiting positions at Stanford University (1974), McGill University, Montreal (1980), the University of South Carolina (1981 - 1983), the University of Chicago (1985 - 1986), the California Institute of Technology (Fairchild Distinguished Scholar, 1987 - 1988), the University of Montreal (Aisenstadt Chair at Centre de Recherches Mathématiques), the Mathematical Science Research Institute, Berkeley (Eisenbud Professor, 2008), and the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at Princeton University