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.
Sheila McIlraith | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Education edit
McIlraith earned her PhD at the University of Toronto[5] under the supervision of Raymond Reiter.[3]
Research and career edit
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]
Awards and honors edit
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]
References edit
- ^ a b 2019 ACM Fellows Recognized for Far-Reaching Accomplishments that Define the Digital Age, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 2019-12-11
- ^ Sheila McIlraith publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ a b Sheila McIlraith at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ McIlraith, S.A.; Son, T.C.; Honglei Zeng (2001), "Semantic Web services", IEEE Intelligent Systems, 16 (2): 46–53, doi:10.1109/5254.920599, ISSN 1541-1672
- ^ McIlraith, Sheila Ann (1997). Towards a formal account of diagnostic problem solving. utoronto.ca (PhD thesis). University of Toronto Library. hdl:1807/10895. OCLC 46561408.
- ^ "Sheila McIlraith's (old) Home Page", ksl.stanford.edu, Stanford University
- ^ a b McIlraith, Sheila (2019), "McIlraith brief biography", cs.toronto.edu, retrieved 2019-12-11
- ^ Martin, David; Paolucci, Massimo; McIlraith, Sheila; Burstein, Mark; McDermott, Drew; McGuinness, Deborah; Parsia, Bijan; Payne, Terry; Sabou, Marta (2005), Cardoso, Jorge; Sheth, Amit (eds.), "Bringing Semantics to Web Services: The OWL-S Approach" (PDF), Semantic Web Services and Web Process Composition, vol. 3387, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 26–42, doi:10.1007/978-3-540-30581-1_4, ISBN 978-3-540-24328-1
- ^ "AAAI-18", aaai.org, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
- ^ "KR 2012", wikicfp.com, Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
- ^ McIlraith, Sheila A; Plexousakis, Dimitris; Van Harmelen, Frank, eds. (2004), "ISWC 2004", link.springer.com, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, International Semantic Web Conference, doi:10.1007/b102467, ISBN 978-3-540-23798-3, S2CID 8046354
- ^ "Sheila McIlraith", awards.acm.org, Association for Computing Machinery
- ^ "Elected AAAI Fellows", aaai.org, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
- ^ "SWSA Ten-Year Award", swsa.semanticweb.org, Semantic Web Science Association
- ^ "ICAPS Awards", icaps-conference.org, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling
