Elaine Kant
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Elaine Kant | |
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| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S.), Stanford University (Ph.D.) |
| Known for | Artificial intelligence, Program synthesis, Computational finance |
| Awards | Hertz Fellowship (1976), AAAI Fellow (1991), AAAS Fellow (1997) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science, Artificial intelligence, Computational finance |
| Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University, Schlumberger, SciComp, Querium |
| Thesis | Efficiency Considerations in Program Synthesis: A Knowledge-Based Approach (1979) |
Elaine Kant is an American computer scientist known for her work in artificial intelligence, program synthesis, and computational finance.
Kant earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University.[1][2] Her 1979 doctoral dissertation was Efficiency Considerations in Program Synthesis: A Knowledge-Based Approach.[1][3]
Kant was a computer science faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University in the early 1980s.[4] As a researcher for Schlumberger in the 1980s and 1990s, she developed SciNapse, a tool for transforming mathematical models in hydrocarbon exploration into computer code. She later founded SciComp, which developed a system for automatic programming in computational finance.[5]
She is president and CEO of SciComp,[1][2] chief scientist of Querium,[1][6] and head of research for StepWise, an online secondary-school mathematics tutoring system developed by Querium.[7]
