Cristina Conati

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]

Education

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]

Career

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).

Awards and honors

In 2020, she was elected an ACM Distinguished Member.[4] and in 2024 became an AAAI Fellow.[5] She was elected as an ACM Fellow, in the 2025 class of fellows, "for contributions to research in Human-AI interaction and AI-driven personalization".[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c 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. ^ Jim Ormond (16 December 2020), ACM Recognizes 2020 Distinguished Members for Contributions that Propel the Digital Age: Longstanding Members Cited for Significant Achievements across the Computing Field, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 2026-01-09
  5. ^ Elected AAAI Fellows, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, retrieved 2025-07-12
  6. ^ Excellence and Impact Recognized by World's Preeminent Computing Society: Association for Computing Machinery Selects 71 Professionals for Outstanding Achievements, ACM, 21 January 2026, retrieved 2026-01-09
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