Sheila McIlraith

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Sheila McIlraith
Born
Sheila McIlraith
Alma materUniversity of Toronto (PhD)
Known forSemantic web services[4]
AwardsAAAI Fellow (2011)
ACM Fellow (2019)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsArtificial Intelligence
World Wide Web
Computer Science
AI Planning[2]
InstitutionsUniversity of Toronto
Xerox PARC
Stanford University
Thesis Towards a formal account of diagnostic problem solving
Doctoral advisorRaymond Reiter[3]
Websitewww.cs.toronto.edu/~sheila

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.

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]

  1. ^ a b 2019 ACM Fellows Recognized for Far-Reaching Accomplishments that Define the Digital Age, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 2019-12-11
  2. ^ Sheila McIlraith publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ a b Sheila McIlraith at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Edit this at Wikidata
  4. ^ 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
  5. ^ 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. Free access icon
  6. ^ "Sheila McIlraith's (old) Home Page", ksl.stanford.edu, Stanford University
  7. ^ a b McIlraith, Sheila (2019), "McIlraith brief biography", cs.toronto.edu, retrieved 2019-12-11
  8. ^ 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
  9. ^ "AAAI-18", aaai.org, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
  10. ^ "KR 2012", wikicfp.com, Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
  11. ^ 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
  12. ^ "Sheila McIlraith", awards.acm.org, Association for Computing Machinery
  13. ^ "Elected AAAI Fellows", aaai.org, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
  14. ^ "SWSA Ten-Year Award", swsa.semanticweb.org, Semantic Web Science Association
  15. ^ "ICAPS Awards", icaps-conference.org, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling
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