Lillian J. Ratliff is an Assistant
Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of
Washington. She also holds an Adjunct Assistant Professor position in the Allen School
of Computer Science and Engineering at UW. Prior to joining UW, Lillian
obtained her PhD in EECS at
UC Berkeley (2015). She holds a MS (UNLV 2010) and BS (UNLV 2008) in
Electrical Engineering as well as a BS (UNLV 2008) in Mathematics. Lillian's research
interests lie at the intersection of game theory and economics, optimization,
machine learning, and control theory. She draws on theory from these areas
to develop new theory for decision-making in societal-scale
learning-enabled systems. Lillian is the recipient of an NSF Graduate
Research Fellowship (2009), NSF CISE Research Initiation Initiative award
(2017), and an NSF CAREER award (2019), and the ONR Young Investigator award
(2020). She was awarded the UW CoE Junior Faculty Award in 2021. Lillian was also an invited speaker at the NAE China-America Frontiers
of Engineering Symposium (2019) and recently awarded the Dhanani Endowed Faculty
Fellowship (2020).