Leila Amgoud

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Leila Amgoud (born 1972) is an Algerian and French computer scientist, a director of research for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), the deputy director of the Toulouse Institute of Computer Science Research (IRIT), and the holder of a chair for argumentation in the Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute (ANITI). Her research involves argumentation for explainable artificial intelligence. [1]

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Education and career

Amgoud was born in 1972 [2] in Algeria, and studied at the Algerian Higher National School of Computer Science  [ fr ]. She has a 1999 PhD from Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier University. [1] Her doctoral dissertation, Contribution a l'integration des preferences dans le raisonnement argumentatif, was sustained under the direction of Claudette Cayrol. [3]

She became a researcher for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in 2001, after postdoctoral research in England. [1] She was named a director of research for the CNRS in 2007. [2] In 2009, she completed a habilitation with the thesis Contributions to argumentation theory and its applications. [2] [4]

Recognition

Amgoud is a fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence. [5]

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References

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