Tina Eliassi-Rad

Tina Eliassi-Rad is a Professor of Computer Science and the inaugural President Joseph E. Aoun Professor at Northeastern University. She is also a core faculty member at Northeastern’s Network Science Institute and the Institute for Experiential AI. In addition, she is an external faculty member at SFI and the Vermont Complex Systems Center. Before joining Northeastern, Tina was an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers University; and before that a member of the technical staff at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Tina works at the intersection of AI and network science, and is interested in the impact of science and technology on society. Her algorithms have been integrated into systems used by governments, industry, and open-source software. Tina received an Outstanding Mentor Award from the U.S. 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’s Excellence in Research and Creative Activity Award in 2022, and in 2023, she was awarded the Lagrange Prize-CRT Foundation and became an elected Fellow of the Network Science Society.