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 an NSF CAREER award, the SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award, and the CMU School of Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award, among other honors.