Cristina Conati is an Italian and Canadian computer scientist specializing in
artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...
and
computer-human interaction. She is a professor of computer science at the
University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a Public university, public research university with campuses near University of British Columbia Vancouver, Vancouver and University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, in British Columbia, Canada ...
, and has served as president of the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing.
Conati earned a master's degree in computer science from the
University of Milan
The University of Milan (; ), officially abbreviated as UNIMI, or colloquially referred to as La Statale ("the State niversity), is a public university, public research university in Milan, Italy. It is one of the largest universities in Eu ...
in 1988, and a Ph.D. from the
University of Pittsburgh
The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The university is composed of seventeen undergraduate and graduate schools and colle ...
in 1999. Her dissertation, ''An intelligent computer tutor to guide self-explanation while learning from examples'', was supervised by Kurt VanLehn. She joined the University of British Columbia faculty in 1999, and became a full professor there in 2016.
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).
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Italian computer scientists
Canadian women computer scientists
Canadian computer scientists
Italian emigrants to Canada
University of Pittsburgh alumni
Academic staff of the University of British Columbia Faculty of Science