Tina Eliassi-Rad | |
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![]() Eliassi-Rad in 2023 | |
Alma mater | University of Wisconsin–Madison University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |
Awards | Lagrange Prize (2023), Network Science Society Fellow (2023) [1] |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Northeastern University Rutgers University Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
Thesis | Building intelligent agents that learn to retrieve and extract information (2001) |
Website | Eliassi.org |
Tina Eliassi-Rad is an American computer scientist and the inaugural President Joseph E. Aoun Professor[2] at Northeastern University. Her research is at the intersection of artificial intelligence (namely, data mining and machine learning), network science, and applied ethics. In 2023, she won the Lagrange Prize for her work on ethical approaches to artificial intelligence.
Eliassi-Rad studied computer sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[3] She earned a bachelor's degree with distinction in 1993, before moving to Illinois to begin graduate program at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. She returned to Wisconsin for her doctoral research, where she worked on intelligent agents.[4] After graduating, Eliassi-Rad joined the research team at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.[5]
Eliassi-Rad joined Rutgers University as an Assistant Professor in 2010. She moved to Northeastern University in 2016, where she was made Professor in 2020.[6] She is part of the Northeastern University Network Science Institute.[7] She currently teaches the honors inquiry course "Algorithms That Affect Lives."[8]