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FDS Colloquium: Ellen Vitercik (Stanford)

Speaker: Ellen Vitercik (Stanford) Assistant Professor Management Science and Engineering department and the Computer Science department. Stanford University Wednesday, April 15, 2026 11:30AM - 1:00PM Lunch at 11:30am in 1307 Talk 12:00-1:00pm in 1327 Location: Yale Institute for Foundations of Data Science & Webcast, 219 Prospect Street, 13th Floor, New Haven, CT 06511 and via Webcast: https://yale.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=b2df4174-0711-4a6c-9537-b3ca014defaa

Speaker Bio: I am an Assistant Professor at Stanford with a joint appointment between the Management Science and Engineering department and the Computer Science department.

My research interests include machine learning, algorithm design, discrete and combinatorial optimization, and the interface between economics and computation. I am particularly excited about how machine learning can be used for discrete optimization and algorithmic reasoning (see the class I’ve taught on the subject).

Before joining Stanford, I was a Miller fellow at UC Berkeley, hosted by Michael Jordan and Jennifer Chayes. I received a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, where I was advised by Nina Balcan and Tuomas Sandholm.

My research has been recognized by a Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellowship and an NSF CAREER award. My thesis won the SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award, the CMU School of Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award, and the Honorable Mention Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award.

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