Edith Elkind

Ginny Rometty Professor of Computer Science | Northwestern University

Brief bio

Edith Elkind is a Ginny Rometty Professor of Computer Science at Northwestern University. She obtained her PhD from Princeton in 2005, and worked in Israel, Singapore, and the UK before joining Northwestern in 2024. She works in algorithmic game theory, with a focus on algorithms for collective decision making. She is a recipient of the SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award and a Fellow of EurAI. She served as a chair of multiple leading conferences in AI and algorithmic game theory (including IJCAI, ACM EC, AAMAS, WINE and COMSOC), and serves as an editor in chief of Journal of AI Research. For more details, see the CV.

Selected publications

Teaching

  • Algorithms and Data Structures, Oxford
  • Computational Game Theory, Oxford
  • Introduction to AI, Northwestern
  • Algorithms for Collective Decision-Making, Oxford/Northwestern

PhD students (current and former)