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
- Justified Representation: From Hare to Droop, Matthew Casey, Edith Elkind, preprint
- Strengthening Proportionality in Temporal Voting, Bradley Phillips, Edith Elkind, Nicholas Teh, Tomasz Was, preprint
- Streamlining Equal Shares, Sonja Kraiczy, Isaac Robinson, Edith Elkind, preprint
- Not in My Backyard! Temporal Voting Over Public Chores, Edith Elkind, Tzeh Yuan Neoh, Nicholas Teh, IJCAI'25
- From Independence of Clones to Composition Consistency: A Hierarchy of Barriers to Strategic Nomination, Ratip Emin Berker, SÃlvia Casacuberta, Isaac Robinson, Christopher Ong, Vincent Conitzer, Edith Elkind, EC'25
- Verifying Proportionality in Temporal Voting, Edith Elkind, Svetlana Obraztsova, Jannik Peters, Nicholas Teh, AAAI'25
- Towards Fair and Efficient Public Transportation: A Bus Stop Model, Martin Bullinger, Edith Elkind, Mohamad Latifian, AAMAS'25
- Selecting Interlacing Committees, Chris Dong, Martin Bullinger, Tomasz Was, Larry Birnbaum, Edith Elkind, AAMAS'25
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)
- Svetlana Obraztsova, PhD 2012, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
- Yair Zick, PhD 2014, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
- Lan Yu, PhD 2014, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
- Ayumi Igarashi, PhD 2018, Oxford (UK)
- Dominik Peters, PhD 2019, Oxford (UK)
- Jiarui Gan, PhD 2020, Oxford (UK)
- Abheek Ghosh, PhD 2024, Oxford (UK)
- Nicholas Teh, PhD 2025, Oxford (UK)
- Sonja Kraiczy, ongoing, Oxford (UK)
- Kelly Jiang, ongoing, Northwestern (USA)
- Matthew Casey, ongoing, Northwestern (USA))