Tina Eliassi-Rad

Tina Eliassi-Rad
Eliassi-Rad in 2023
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
AwardsLagrange Prize (2023), Network Science Society Fellow (2023) [1]
Scientific career
InstitutionsNortheastern University
Rutgers University
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
ThesisBuilding intelligent agents that learn to retrieve and extract information (2001)
WebsiteEliassi.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.

Early life and education

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]

Research and career

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]

Awards and honors

Selected publications

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  • Sen, Prithviraj; Namata, Galileo; Bilgic, Mustafa; Getoor, Lise; Galligher, Brian; Eliassi-Rad, Tina (2008-09-06). "Collective Classification in Network Data". AI Magazine. 29 (3): 93. doi:10.1609/aimag.v29i3.2157. hdl:1903/7546. ISSN 2371-9621.
  • Henderson, Keith; Gallagher, Brian; Eliassi-Rad, Tina; Tong, Hanghang; Basu, Sugato; Akoglu, Leman; Koutra, Danai; Faloutsos, Christos; Li, Lei (2012-08-12). "RolX". Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining. KDD '12. Beijing, China: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 1231–1239. doi:10.1145/2339530.2339723. ISBN 978-1-4503-1462-6. S2CID 458476.
  • Tong, Hanghang; Faloutsos, Christos; Gallagher, Brian; Eliassi-Rad, Tina (2007-08-12). "Fast best-effort pattern matching in large attributed graphs". Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining. KDD '07. San Jose, California, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 737–746. doi:10.1145/1281192.1281271. ISBN 978-1-59593-609-7. S2CID 6238562.

References

  1. ^ "Network Science Society" July 2023
  2. ^ "Northeastern News" 24 September 2023
  3. ^ "Tina Eliassi-Rad". Northeastern University. Retrieved 2020-10-25.
  4. ^ Eliassi, -Rad, Tina (2001). Building intelligent agents that learn to retrieve and extract information. OCLC 609079420.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ "Tina Eliassi-Rad – Khoury College of Computer Sciences". Retrieved 2020-10-25.
  6. ^ "Tina Eliassi-Rad". The Helix Center. Retrieved 2020-10-25.
  7. ^ "Tina Eliassi-Rad | People". www.networkscienceinstitute.org. Retrieved 2020-10-25.
  8. ^ "Algorithms that Affect Lives". eliassi.org. Retrieved 2020-10-25.
  9. ^ "Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory News 2 July 2010
  10. ^ " ISI Foundation" 2019
  11. ^ "Women in AI Ethics" 2021 List
  12. ^ "Northeastern University Academic Honors" April 2022
  13. ^ "ISI Foundation Press" 26 June 2023
  14. ^ "Network Science Society" July 2023