Sheila McIlraith

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.[5]

Sheila McIlraith
Born
Sheila Ann McIlraith
Alma materUniversity of Toronto (PhD)
Known forSemantic web services[1]
AwardsAAAI Fellow (2011)
ACM Fellow (2019)[2]
Scientific career
FieldsArtificial Intelligence
World Wide Web
Computer Science
AI Planning[3]
InstitutionsUniversity of Toronto
Xerox PARC
Stanford University
ThesisTowards a formal account of diagnostic problem solving (1997)
Doctoral advisorRaymond Reiter[4]
Websitewww.cs.toronto.edu/~sheila

Education and career

McIlraith earned her PhD at the University of Toronto in 1997[6] under the supervision of Raymond Reiter.[4]

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.[7]

McIlraith's research is in the area of Artificial Intelligence (AI) knowledge representation and reasoning and automated reasoning.[7] Her research has made practical contributions to the development of emerging web standards such as DAML-S/OWL-S[8] and computer-aided diagnosis systems.[7]

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,[9] and one year at Xerox PARC.[7]

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, 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.[7]

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".[2][10] 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”.[11]

References
  1. 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
  2. 2019 ACM Fellows Recognized for Far-Reaching Accomplishments that Define the Digital Age, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 2019-12-11
  3. Sheila McIlraith publications indexed by Google Scholar
  4. Sheila McIlraith at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. Sheila McIlraith at DBLP Bibliography Server
  6. McIlraith, Sheila Ann (1997), "Towards a formal account of diagnostic problem solving", utoronto.ca, University of Toronto Library, hdl:1807/10895, OCLC 46561408
  7. 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, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 3387, pp. 26–42, doi:10.1007/978-3-540-30581-1_4, ISBN 978-3-540-24328-1
  9. "Sheila McIlraith's (old) Home Page", ksl.stanford.edu, Stanford University
  10. "Sheila McIlraith", awards.acm.org, Association for Computing Machinery
  11. "Elected AAAI Fellows", aaai.org, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence


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