Sheila McIlraith

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Sheila McIlraith
Born
Sheila McIlraith
Alma mater University of Toronto (PhD)
Known for Semantic web services [1]
Awards AAAI Fellow (2011)
ACM Fellow (2019) [2]
Scientific career
Fields Artificial Intelligence
World Wide Web
Computer Science
AI Planning [3]
Institutions University of Toronto
Xerox PARC
Stanford University
Thesis Towards a formal account of diagnostic problem solving
Doctoral advisor Raymond Reiter [4]
Website www.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.

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Education

McIlraith earned her PhD at the University of Toronto [5] 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 [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

McIlraith was elected an ACM Fellow in 2019 "for contributions to knowledge representation and its applications to automated planning and semantic web services". [2] [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]

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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. 1 2 2019 ACM Fellows Recognized for Far-Reaching Accomplishments that Define the Digital Age, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 2019-12-11
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  4. 1 2 Sheila McIlraith at the Mathematics Genealogy Project OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  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. Lock-green.svg
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  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
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  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