Maria-Florina Balcan

Nina Balcan
Born
Maria-Florina Balcan

Alma materUniversity of Bucharest
Carnegie Mellon University (PhD)
AwardsSloan Research Fellowship (2014)
Grace Murray Hopper Award (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsMachine learning
Algorithmic game theory
Theoretical computer science
InstitutionsCarnegie Mellon University
Microsoft Research
Georgia Institute of Technology
ThesisNew Theoretical Frameworks for Machine Learning (2008)
Doctoral advisorAvrim Blum
Websitewww.cs.cmu.edu/~ninamf/

Maria-Florina (Nina) Balcan is a Romanian-American computer scientist whose research investigates machine learning, algorithmic game theory, theoretical computer science, including active learning, kernel methods, random-sampling mechanisms and envy-free pricing. She is an associate professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.