Maria-Florina Balcan
Nina Balcan | |
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| Born | Maria-Florina Balcan |
| Alma mater | University of Bucharest Carnegie Mellon University (PhD) |
| Awards | Sloan Research Fellowship (2014) Grace Murray Hopper Award (2019) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Machine learning Algorithmic game theory Theoretical computer science |
| Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University Microsoft Research Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | New Theoretical Frameworks for Machine Learning (2008) |
| Doctoral advisor | Avrim Blum |
| Website | www |
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.