bio

Ellen Vitercik is an Assistant Professor at Stanford University with a joint appointment between the Management Science & Engineering department and the Computer Science department. Her research revolves around machine learning theory, discrete optimization, and the interface between economics and computation. Before joining Stanford, she spent a year as a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley and received a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. Her research has been recognized with a Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellowship, an NSF CAREER award, the SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award, and the CMU School of Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award, among other honors.