Barbara Di Eugenio
Barbara Di Eugenio is an Italian-American computer scientist, the Collegiate Warren S. McCulloch Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago.[1] Her research focuses on natural language processing and its applications to human–computer interaction, educational technology, and artificial intelligence in healthcare.[2]
Education and career
Di Eugenio is originally from Turin.[1] After an undergraduate education in Italy,[2] she completed her Ph.D. in computer and information science in 1993 at the University of Pennsylvania.[1] Her dissertation, Understanding Natural Language Instructions: A Computational Approach to Purpose Clauses, was supervised by Bonnie Webber.[3]
She became a faculty member at the University of Illinois Chicago in 1999, and at that time was the only woman faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.[4]
Recognition
In 2022, Di Eugenio received the Zenith Award of the Association for Women in Science.[4] She was named as a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 2023, "for outstanding contributions to natural language generation; intelligent tutoring systems; discourse; intercoder agreement; and applying multimodal interactive systems to health".[5]
References
- ^ a b c "Barbara Di Eugenio", Computer Science profiles, University of Illinois Chicago, retrieved 2026-02-28
- ^ a b "University Scholar Barbara Di Eugenio", UIC Today, University of Illinois Chicago, 21 March 2019, retrieved 2026-02-28
- ^ Di Eugenio, Barbara (1993), Understanding Natural Language Instructions: A Computational Approach to Purpose Clauses (Ph.D. thesis), University of Pennsylvania, hdl:20.500.14332/37616, ProQuest 304091001
- ^ a b "A career rewarded", College of Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago, retrieved 2026-02-28
- ^ ACL Fellows 2023, Association for Computational Linguistics, 12 December 2023, retrieved 2026-02-28
External links
- Barbara Di Eugenio publications indexed by Google Scholar