Bio

Elizabeth Bondi-Kelly is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. She has a PhD in Computer Science at Harvard University, where she was advised by Prof. Milind Tambe, and she was formerly a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT through the CSAIL METEOR Fellowship. Her research interests are focused on artificial intelligence for social impact, particularly spanning the fields of multi-agent systems and data science. Her work, which has been published in venues such as AAAI, AAMAS, AIES, and IJCAI, has applications in conservation and public health, and has been deployed to support conservation efforts. She has been recognized as an MIT EECS Rising Star in 2021, and has been awarded the Best Paper Runner Up at AAAI 2021, Best Application Demo Award at AAMAS 2019, Best Paper Award at SPIE DCS 2016, and an Honorable Mention for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program in 2017. She also founded and currently leads Try AI, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit committed to increasing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in the field of AI through community-building educational programs, largely focused on AI for social impact.