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 modelsinhydrocarbon 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]
As a doctoral student, Kant received a Hertz Fellowship in 1976.[1] She was named a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 1991,[8] and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1997.[1]
Kant is the author of Efficiency in Program Synthesis (1981).[9] She is a coauthor of the 1985 book Programming Expert Systems in OPS5: An Introduction to Rule-Based Programming, on OPS5, a rule-based language.[10]
