Tina Eliassi-Rad

Research interests

• Data mining
• Machine learning
• Network science
• Ethics and artificial intelligence

Education

• PhD in Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• MS in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• BS in Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Biography

Tina Eliassi-Rad is the inaugural Joseph E. Aoun Professor at Northeastern University, based in Boston. She is also a core faculty member at Northeastern's Network Science Institute and the Institute for Experiential AI, as well as an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute and the Vermont Complex Systems Center.

Eliassi-Rad's research is at the intersection of data mining, machine learning, and network science. She has more than 100 peer-reviewed publications — including a few best paper and best paper runner-up awards — and has given more than 200 invited talks and 14 tutorials. Eliassi-Rad's work has been applied to personalized searches on the World Wide Web, statistical indices of large-scale scientific simulation data, fraud detection, mobile ad targeting, cyber situational awareness, drug discovery, democracy and online discourse, and ethics in machine learning. Her algorithms have been incorporated into systems used by governments and industry (e.g., IBM System G Graph Analytics) as well as open-source software (e.g., Stanford Network Analysis Project).

In 2017, Eliassi-Rad served as the program co-chair for the ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining and the International Conference on Network Science. In 2020, she served as the program co-chair for the International Conference on Computational Social Science. Eliassi-Rad received an Outstanding Mentor Award from the US Department of Energy's Office of Science in 2010, became an ISI Foundation Fellow in 2019, was named one of the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics in 2021, received Northeastern University's Excellence in Research and Creative Activity Award in 2022, and was awarded the prestigious Lagrange-CRT Foundation Prize in 2023.

Prior to joining Northeastern, Eliassi-Rad was an associate professor of computer science at Rutgers University, and before that she was a member of technical staff and principal investigator at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Labs and groups

• Rad Lab

Recent publications