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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.
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]
With Georgios Chalkiadakis and Michael J. Wooldridge, Elkind is an author of Computational Aspects of Cooperative Game Theory (Morgan & Claypool, 2012).
Elkind is a Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence. [7]
