Cynthia Rudin is an assistant professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management in the operations research and statistics group. She works on machine learning and knowledge discovery problems relating to data-driven prioritization. Previously, Dr. Rudin was an associate research scientist at the Center for Computational Learning Systems at Columbia University, and prior to that, an NSF postdoctoral research fellow at NYU. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University at Buffalo, and received a PhD in applied and computational mathematics from Princeton University in 2004. Her most recent awards include the NSF CAREER award, a Solomon Buchsbaum Research Fund grant, and a best poster award at the International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications. Her recent work on energy grid maintenance was featured in articles appearing in IEEE Computer, ScienceNews, WIRED Science, U.S. News and World Report, Slashdot, Discovery Channel, CIO magazine, and Energy Daily.