Kate Donahue

Kate is a METEOR postdoc at MIT, working with Manish Raghavan, and starting in summer 2026, she will be an assistant professor of computer science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). She works on algorithmic problems relating to the societal impact of AI such as fairness, human/AI collaboration and game-theoretic models of federated/collaborative learning.
She did my PhD in computer Science at Cornell, where she was extremely fortunate to be advised by Jon Kleinberg. During her PhD, she interned at Google (with Kostas Kollias and Sreenivas Gollapudi), at Amazon (with Krishnaram Kenthapadi and Alexandra Chouldechova) and at Microsoft Research (with Solon Barocas, in the NYC FATE group, and with Nicole Immorlica and Brendan Lucier in the NE EconCS group).