Edith Elkind is an Estonian computer scientist and the Ginni Rometty Professor of Computer Science at Northwestern University in Evanston. She is known for her work in algorithmic game theory and computational social choice.
Education and career
As a high school student, Elkind competed for the Estonian team in the International Mathematical Olympiads in 1992 and 1993. She earned a master's degree at Moscow State University in 1998, and completed her Ph.D. in 2005 from Princeton University. Her dissertation, Computational Issues in Optimal Auction Design, was supervised by Amit Sahai.
After completing her Ph.D., she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Warwick, the University of Liverpool, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She became a lecturer at the University of Southampton and an assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University. She moved to Oxford in 2013, as a non-tutorial fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. She was awarded the title of professor by Oxford in 2016. She moved to Northwestern University in November 2024.
Book
With Georgios Chalkiadakis and Michael J. Wooldridge, Elkind is an author of Computational Aspects of Cooperative Game Theory (Morgan & Claypool, 2012).
Honours
Elkind is a Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence.
References
- ^ "Edith Elkind and Dmitrii Pasechnik Join Northwestern Computer Science". Northwestern Engineering. Retrieved 2024-11-10.
- "Edith Elkind", Individual ranking, International Mathematical Olympiad, retrieved 2019-09-16
- Nomination for the IFAAMAS Board: Edith Elkind (PDF), International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, retrieved 2019-09-16
- Edith Elkind at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Edith Elkind, University of Oxford, retrieved 2019-09-16
- Edith Elkind & Dan Olteanu made professors in Recognition of Distinction exercise, University of Oxford, Department of Computer Science, 19 July 2016, retrieved 2019-09-16
- EurAI Fellows, European Association for Artificial Intelligence, retrieved 2024-01-07
External links
- Edith Elkind publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Living people
- Estonian women computer scientists
- British computer scientists
- Moscow State University alumni
- Princeton University alumni
- Academics of the University of Southampton
- Academic staff of Nanyang Technological University
- Academics of the University of Oxford
- Fellows of Balliol College, Oxford
- Fellows of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence
- Fair division researchers