Edith Elkind

Elkind at AAAI 2026

Edith Elkind is an Estonian computer scientist and the Ginni Rometty Professor of Computer Science at Northwestern University in Evanston.[1] 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.[2] She earned a master's degree at Moscow State University in 1998,[3] and completed her Ph.D. in 2005 from Princeton University. Her dissertation, Computational Issues in Optimal Auction Design, was supervised by Amit Sahai.[4]

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.[5] She was awarded the title of professor by Oxford in 2016.[6] She moved to Northwestern University in November 2024.[1]

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.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b "Edith Elkind and Dmitrii Pasechnik Join Northwestern Computer Science". Northwestern Engineering. Retrieved 2024-11-10.
  2. ^ "Edith Elkind", Individual ranking, International Mathematical Olympiad, retrieved 2019-09-16
  3. ^ Nomination for the IFAAMAS Board: Edith Elkind (PDF), International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, retrieved 2019-09-16
  4. ^ Edith Elkind at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ Edith Elkind, University of Oxford, retrieved 2019-09-16
  6. ^ 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
  7. ^ EurAI Fellows, European Association for Artificial Intelligence, retrieved 2024-01-07

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