Lillian J. Ratliff is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington, with adjunct appointments in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering and Aeronautics & Astronautics. Ratliff has been an Amazon Scholar since 2022.
Ratliff's research interests lie at the intersection of game theory, machine learning, optimization, and control theory.
Ratliff received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley in 2015, prior to which she earned an M.S. in Electrical Engineering (2010) and bachelor's degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics (2008) at UNLV.
Selected awards
- 2021 — UW College of Engineering Junior Faculty Award
- 2020 — ONR Young Investigator Award
- 2020 — Dhanani Endowed Faculty Fellowship
- 2019 — NSF CAREER Award
- 2019 — Invited speaker, NAE China-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
- 2017 — NSF CISE Research Initiation Initiative Award
