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Ana Paiva

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Ana Paiva
Alma materUniversity of Lisbon, Instituto Superior Técnico
Scientific career
ThesisDynamic user and learner modeling (1995)

Ana Maria Severino de Almeida e Paiva is Secretary of State for Science in Portugal since April 5th, 2024.[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.

Education and career

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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]

Selected publications

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  • Leite, Iolanda; Martinho, Carlos; Paiva, Ana (April 2013). "Social Robots for Long-Term Interaction: A Survey". International Journal of Social Robotics. 5 (2): 291–308. doi:10.1007/s12369-013-0178-y. S2CID 3721600.
  • Dias, João; Mascarenhas, Samuel; Paiva, Ana (2014). "FAtiMA Modular: Towards an Agent Architecture with a Generic Appraisal Framework". Emotion Modeling. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 8750. pp. 44–56. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-12973-0_3. ISBN 978-3-319-12972-3.
  • Paiva, Ana; Dias, João; Sobral, Daniel; Aylett, Ruth; Woods, Sarah; Hall, Lynne; Zoll, Carsten (9 March 2005). "Learning by Feeling: Evoking Empathy with Synthetic Characters". Applied Artificial Intelligence. 19 (3–4): 235–266. doi:10.1080/08839510590910165. hdl:2299/6127. ISSN 0883-9514. S2CID 6305752.
  • Dias, João; Paiva, Ana (2005), Bento, Carlos; Cardoso, Amílcar; Dias, Gaël (eds.), "Feeling and Reasoning: A Computational Model for Emotional Characters", Progress in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 3808, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 127–140, doi:10.1007/11595014_13, ISBN 978-3-540-30737-2, retrieved 2022-01-02

Awards and honors

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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]

References

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  1. ^ "Secretaries of State - Education". www.portugal.gov.pt.
  2. ^ Paiva, Ana Maria Severino de Almeida e (1995). Dynamic user and learner modeling. University of Lancaster. OCLC 557394907.
  3. ^ "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
  4. ^ "Home". gaips.inesc-id.pt. Retrieved 2021-10-12.
  5. ^ "Ana Paiva". Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
  6. ^ "Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at AAAI-18". CRN. 2018-03-01. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
  7. ^ "Ana Paiva Elected EurAI Fellow". INESC-ID. 2019-07-03. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
  8. ^ "Fellows | European Association for Artificial Intelligence". www.eurai.org. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
  9. ^ "Elected AAAI Fellows". AAAI. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
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