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'''Sheila Ann McIlraith''' is a Canadian computer scientist whose research topics include [[artificial intelligence]] and the [[Semantic Web]]. She is a professor of computer science at the [[University of Toronto]].<Ref name=dblp/>
'''Sheila McIlraith''' is a Canadian computer scientist specializing in [[artificial intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]] (AI). She is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada CIFAR AI Chair (Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence), and Associate Director and Research Lead of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society.


==Education and career==
==Education and career==
McIlraith earned her [[PhD]] at the University of Toronto in 1997{{r|samphd}} under the supervision of [[Raymond Reiter]].{{r|mathgene}}
McIlraith earned her [[PhD]] at the University of Toronto{{r|samphd}} under the supervision of [[Raymond Reiter]].{{r|mathgene}}


==Research and career==
==Research and career==
McIlraith worked as a [[postdoctoral researcher]] at [[Xerox PARC]] and as a research scientist at [[Stanford University]] before returning to the University of Toronto as a faculty member in 2004.{{r|toronto}}
McIlraith worked as a [[postdoctoral researcher]] at [[Xerox PARC]] and as a research scientist at [[Stanford University]] before returning to the University of Toronto as a faculty member in 2004.


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 standard|web standards]] such as [[DAML-S]]/[[OWL-S]] and [[computer-aided diagnosis]] systems.
McIlraith's research is in the area of [[Artificial Intelligence]] (AI) [[knowledge representation|knowledge representation and reasoning]] and [[automated reasoning]].{{r|toronto}} Her research has made practical contributions to the development of emerging [[web standard]]s such as [[DAML-S]]/[[OWL-S]]<ref>{{Citation|last1=Martin|first1=David|title=Bringing Semantics to Web Services: The OWL-S Approach|date=2005|work=Semantic Web Services and Web Process Composition|volume=3387|pages=26–42|editor-last=Cardoso|editor-first=Jorge|publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg|doi=10.1007/978-3-540-30581-1_4|isbn=978-3-540-24328-1|last2=Paolucci|first2=Massimo|last3=McIlraith|first3=Sheila|last4=Burstein|first4=Mark|last5=McDermott|first5=Drew|last6=McGuinness|first6=Deborah|last7=Parsia|first7=Bijan|last8=Payne|first8=Terry|last9=Sabou|first9=Marta|url=https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/263000/1/OWL-S-SWSWPC2004-final.pdf|editor2-last=Sheth|editor2-first=Amit}}</ref> and [[computer-aided diagnosis]] systems.{{r|toronto}}


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McIlraith has served as associate editor of the [[Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research|''Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research'']] (JAIR), on the [[editorial board]] of [[AI Magazine|''AI Magazine'']], and is a past associate editor of the journal [[Artificial Intelligence (journal)|''Artificial Intelligence'']] (AIJ). She served as program co-chair for the [[Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence]] (AAAI) Conference in 2018, as program co-chair of the 13th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2012), and as program co-chair of the [[International Semantic Web Conference]] (ISWC) in 2004.
McIlraith joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto in 2003. Previously she worked for six years as a research scientist at [[Stanford University]],{{r|stanford}} and one year at [[Xerox PARC]].{{r|toronto}}

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McIlraith has served as associate editor of the ''[[Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research]]'' (JAIR), on the [[editorial board]] of ''[[AI Magazine]]'', and is a past associate editor of the journal ''[[Artificial Intelligence (journal)|Artificial Intelligence]]'' (AIJ). She served as program co-chair for the [[Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence]] (AAAI) Conference in 2018, and is past program co-chair of the 13th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2012) and the [[International Semantic Web Conference]] (ISWC) in 2004.{{r|toronto}}


===Awards and honors===
===Awards and honors===
McIlraith was elected an [[ACM Fellow]] in 2019 "for contributions to knowledge representation and its applications to [[automated planning]] and [[semantic web service]]s".{{r|facm|facm2}} She was also elected an [[AAAI Fellow]] in 2011 “for significant contributions to [[Knowledge representation and reasoning|knowledge representation]], reasoning about action, and the formal foundations of the [[semantic web]] and diagnostic problem solving”.{{r|faaai}}
McIlraith was elected an [[ACM Fellow]] in 2019 "for contributions to knowledge representation and its applications to [[automated planning]] and [[Semantic web service|semantic web services]]".{{r|facm|facm2}} She was also elected an [[AAAI Fellow]] in 2011 “for significant contributions to [[Knowledge representation and reasoning|knowledge representation]], reasoning about action, and the formal foundations of the [[semantic web]] and diagnostic problem solving”.{{r|faaai}} She and co-authors have been recognized with two 10 year test of time awards from the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in 2011, and from the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) in 2022.


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 05:37, 4 February 2023

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, Canada CIFAR AI Chair (Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence), and Associate Director and Research Lead of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society.

Education and career

McIlraith earned her PhD at the University of Toronto[5] under the supervision of Raymond Reiter.[3]

Research and career

McIlraith worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Xerox PARC and as a research scientist at Stanford University before returning to the University of Toronto as a faculty member in 2004.

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 and computer-aided diagnosis systems.

McIlraith has served as associate editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), on the editorial board of AI Magazine, and is a past associate editor of the journal Artificial Intelligence (AIJ). She served as program co-chair for the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Conference in 2018, as program co-chair of the 13th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2012), and as program co-chair of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in 2004.

Awards and honors

McIlraith was elected an ACM Fellow in 2019 "for contributions to knowledge representation and its applications to automated planning and semantic web services".[1][6] 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”.[7] She and co-authors have been recognized with two 10 year test of time awards from the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in 2011, and from the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) in 2022.

References

  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", awards.acm.org, Association for Computing Machinery
  7. ^ "Elected AAAI Fellows", aaai.org, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

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