Cynthia Rudin

Cynthia Rudin is the Gilbert, Louis, and Edward Lehrman Distinguished Professor in Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. She works in interpretable machine learning, and aims to design predictive models that people can understand. She is the recipient of the IJCAI-25 John McCarthy Award, the 2024 INFORMS Society on Data Mining Prize, the 2022 AAAI Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity, the INFORMS Innovative Applications in Analytics Award, and is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow.