[1] She is known for her work in algorithmic game theory and computational social choice.
As a high school student, Elkind competed for the Estonian team in the International Mathematical Olympiads in 1992 and 1993.
Her dissertation, Computational Issues in Optimal Auction Design, was supervised by Amit Sahai.
[1] With Georgios Chalkiadakis and Michael J. Wooldridge, Elkind is an author of Computational Aspects of Cooperative Game Theory (Morgan & Claypool, 2012).
Elkind is a Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence.