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Early Life
Tina Eliassi-Rad was born April 8th, 1973. Throughout her childhood, she developed a love for problem-solving especially in Math, Statistics, and Engineering. Her father was an electrical engineer and she often spent time reading his IEEE computer magazines and attempting the problems.

Education
Tina Eliassi-Rad’s undergraduate education was at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she majored in computer science. She continued on to get her masters at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in knowledge-based software engineering. During this time she met and married Branden Fitelson. After this, she got her Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Career
After her doctorate, she worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) as a staff scientist. Her official title was Member of Technical Staff and Principal Investigator. She worked here for nine years before accepting a joint job offer from Rutgers University with her husband in 2008. She was an Associate Professor of Computer Science from September 2010 to March 2016. She is currently at Northeastern University as a faculty member in Northeastern’s Science Institute. Eliassi-Rad has also given a TedTalk, at Rutgers University on networking science.

Eliassi's Research
Most of her research is on data mining, the analysis of large databases in order to form new information, and machine learning, a program that allows computers, and technological devices to learn information, similar to that of a human brain. Her research requires her to work with algorithms and large amounts of data applications representing the physical and social phenomena Two of her works include:
 * Collective classification in Network Data
 * Axiomatic approaches to descriptive measures of graphing

Her Awards
She was awarded an Outstanding Mentor Award from the US Department of Energy Office of Science in 2010. She has also created algorithms that are being used by the government.