Cristina Conati

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Cristina Conati is an Italian and Canadian computer scientist specializing in artificial intelligence and computer-human interaction. She is a professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia, [1] and has served as president of the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing. [2]

Conati earned a master's degree in computer science from the University of Milan in 1988, and a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1999. [1] Her dissertation, An intelligent computer tutor to guide self-explanation while learning from examples, was supervised by Kurt VanLehn. [3] She joined the University of British Columbia faculty in 1999, and became a full professor there in 2016. [1]

With Yukiko Nakano and Thomas Bader, Conati is an editor of the book Eye Gaze in Intelligent User Interfaces: Gaze-based Analyses, Models and Applications (Springer, 2013).

She was elected an AAAI Fellow in 2024. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Cristina Conati, Professor & Associate Head of Graduate Affairs, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, retrieved 2019-09-15
  2. "Dr. Cristina Conati", ACM Distinguished Speakers, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 2019-09-15
  3. Conati, Cristina (1999), "An intelligent computer tutor to guide self-explanation while learning from examples", ACM Digital Library, Bibcode:1999PhDT.......248C , retrieved 2019-09-15
  4. "Elected AAAI Fellows". Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. Retrieved 2025-07-12.