Sera Linardi

Associate Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh

Dr. Sera Linardi is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs in the University of Pittsburgh, where she founded the Center for Analytical Approaches for Social Innovation (CAASI), an incubator of community-co-created social justice data projects. Her research consists of field and lab experiments to understand what it means to “do good.”

Currently, Dr. Sera Linardi is a 2024 Siegel Faculty Impact Fellow at Cornell Tech, a position she will hold through December 2024. Dr. Linardi’s primary focus while at Cornell is directing Equity and Access in Algorithm, Mechanism and Optimization (EAAMO), an organization for early career computational researchers that aims to integrate the perspectives of underserved groups into the core of algorithmic research. EAAMO has 2000 members in 150 institutions and 50 countries, and hosts the annual ACM EAAMO conference.