Sheila McIlraith | |
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Born | Sheila McIlraith |
Alma mater | University of Toronto (PhD) |
Known for | Semantic web services[4] |
Awards | AAAI Fellow (2011) ACM Fellow (2019)[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Artificial Intelligence World Wide Web Computer Science AI Planning[2] |
Institutions | University of Toronto Xerox PARC Stanford University |
Thesis | Towards a formal account of diagnostic problem solving |
Doctoral advisor | Raymond Reiter[3] |
Website | www |
Sheila McIlraith is a Canadian computer scientist specializing in Artificial Intelligence (AI). She is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto. She is a Canada CIFAR AI Chair, a faculty member of the Vector Institute, and Associate Director and Research Lead of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society.
McIlraith earned her PhD at the University of Toronto[5] under the supervision of Raymond Reiter.[3]
McIlraith worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Xerox PARC and as a research scientist at Stanford University[6] before returning to the University of Toronto as a faculty member in 2004.[7]
McIlraith’s research is in the area of AI knowledge representation and reasoning, automated planning, and machine learning where she currently studies sequential decision-making, broadly construed, with a focus on human-compatible AI. Her research was seminal to the area of semantic web services and had made practical contributions to the development of emerging web standards such as DAML-S/OWL-S[8] and computer-aided diagnosis systems.[7]
McIlraith served as program co-chair for the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Conference in 2018[9], as program co-chair of the 13th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2012)[10], and as program co-chair of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in 2004.[11]
McIlraith was elected an ACM Fellow in 2019 "for contributions to knowledge representation and its applications to automated planning and semantic web services".[1][12] She was also elected an AAAI Fellow in 2011 “for significant contributions to knowledge representation, reasoning about action, and the formal foundations of the semantic web and diagnostic problem solving”.[13] She and co-authors have been recognized with two 10 year test of time awards from the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in 2011[14], and from the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) in 2022.[15]