Edith Elkind

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Edith Elkind is an Estonian computer scientist who works as a professor of computing science at the University of Oxford and as a non-tutorial fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. [1] She is known for her work in algorithmic game theory and computational social choice.

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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 before moving to Oxford in 2013. [1] She was awarded the title of professor by Oxford in 2016. [5]

Book

With Georgios Chalkiadakis and Michael J. Wooldridge, Elkind is an author of Computational Aspects of Cooperative Game Theory (Morgan & Claypool, 2012).

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References

  1. 1 2 Edith Elkind, University of Oxford, retrieved 2019-09-16
  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 & Dan Olteanu made professors in Recognition of Distinction exercise, University of Oxford, Department of Computer Science, 19 July 2016, retrieved 2019-09-16