Cynthia D. Rudin, Earl D. McLean, Jr. Professor

Cynthia D. Rudin


Cynthia Rudin is a professor of computer science, electrical and computer engineering, statistical science, and biostatistics & bioinformatics at Duke University, and directs the Interpretable Machine Learning Lab. Previously, Prof. Rudin held positions at MIT, Columbia, and NYU. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University at Buffalo, and a PhD from Princeton University. She is the recipient of the 2022 Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). This award, similar only to world-renowned recognitions, such as the Nobel Prize and the Turing Award, carries a monetary reward at the million-dollar level. She is also a three-time winner of the INFORMS Innovative Applications in Analytics Award, was named as one of the "Top 40 Under 40" by Poets and Quants in 2015, and was named by Businessinsider.com as one of the 12 most impressive professors at MIT in 2015. She is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

She is past chair of both the INFORMS Data Mining Section and the Statistical Learning and Data Science Section of the American Statistical Association. She has also served on committees for DARPA, the National Institute of Justice, AAAI, and ACM SIGKDD. She has served on three committees for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, including the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics, the Committee on Law and Justice, and the Committee on Analytic Research Foundations for the Next-Generation Electric Grid. She has given keynote/invited talks at several conferences including KDD (twice), AISTATS, CODE, Machine Learning in Healthcare (MLHC), Fairness, Accountability and Transparency in Machine Learning (FAT-ML), ECML-PKDD, and the Nobel Conference. Her work has been featured in news outlets including the NY Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, Businessweek, and NPR.

Office Location:  LSRC D342, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:  (919) 660-6555
Email Address: send me a message

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Education:

Ph.D.Princeton University2004
Recent Publications

  1. Falcinelli, SD; Cooper-Volkheimer, AD; Semenova, L; Wu, E; Richardson, A; Ashokkumar, M; Margolis, DM; Archin, NM; Rudin, CD; Murdoch, D; Browne, EP, Impact of Cannabis Use on Immune Cell Populations and the Viral Reservoir in People With HIV on Suppressive Antiretroviral Therapy., J Infect Dis, vol. 228 no. 11 (November, 2023), pp. 1600-1609 [doi]  [abs]
  2. Garrett, BL; Rudin, C, Interpretable algorithmic forensics., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 120 no. 41 (October, 2023), pp. e2301842120 [doi]  [abs]
  3. Hahn, S; Zhu, R; Mak, S; Rudin, C; Jiang, Y, An Interpretable, Flexible, and Interactive Probabilistic Framework for Melody Generation, Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (August, 2023), pp. 4089-4099, ISBN 9798400701030 [doi]  [abs]
  4. Parikh, H; Hoffman, K; Sun, H; Zafar, SF; Ge, W; Jing, J; Liu, L; Sun, J; Struck, A; Volfovsky, A; Rudin, C; Westover, MB, Effects of epileptiform activity on discharge outcome in critically ill patients in the USA: a retrospective cross-sectional study., The Lancet. Digital health, vol. 5 no. 8 (August, 2023), pp. e495-e502 [doi]  [abs]
  5. Peloquin, J; Kirillova, A; Rudin, C; Brinson, LC; Gall, K, Prediction of tensile performance for 3D printed photopolymer gyroid lattices using structural porosity, base material properties, and machine learning, Materials and Design, vol. 232 (August, 2023) [doi]  [abs]