Ana Paiva | |
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Alma mater | University of Lisbon, Instituto Superior Técnico |
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Thesis | Dynamic user and learner modeling (1995) |
Ana Maria Severino de Almeida e Paiva is Secretary of State for Science in Portugal.[1] She was a full professor at the University of Lisbon. Her work is around artificial intelligence and robotics. She is an elected fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence.
Paiva earned her PhD from Lancaster University.[2] In 2013 she became a full Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico within the University of Lisbon.[3] She is also the coordinator of the human-robot interaction focused research group Group on Artificial Intelligence for People and Society (GAIPS).[4]
From 2020 to 2021, Paiva was the Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.[5]
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ignored (help)In 2018, Paiva received first place in the Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.[6] Paiva was named a fellow for the European Association for Artificial Intelligence in 2019[7][8] and of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 2023.[9]