Edith Elkind

Dr. Elkind researches game theory and the computation of social choices. She looks at the decisions involved in multi-agent systems such as auctions, elections and co-operative games.

Dr. Elkind joined the Oxford Computer Science Department in 2013. Prior to coming to Oxford she was an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), where her research was supported by the National Research foundation (NRF) Fellowship.

Dr. Elkind obtained her PhD from Princeton University in 2005, and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Warwick, University of Liverpool and Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as well as a lecturer (Roberts Fellow) at University of Southampton.

Interests

• Algorithmic game theory, computational social choice.

Selected Publications

• Properties of multiwinner voting rules
  Edith Elkind‚ Piotr Faliszewski‚ Piotr Skowron and Arkadii Slinko
  In Social Choice and Welfare. 2017.

• Justified representation in approval−based committee voting
  Haris Aziz‚ Markus Brill‚ Vincent Conitzer‚ Edith Elkind‚ Rupert Freeman and Toby Walsh
  In Social Choice and Welfare. 2017.

• Arbitration and Stability in Cooperative Games with Overlapping Coalitions
  Yair Zick‚ Edith Elkind and Evangelos Markakis
  In J. Artif. Intell. Res. (JAIR). Pages to appear. 2014.