Yolanda Gil

Dr. Yolanda Gil is Director of of the USC Center on AI Research for Health and the Director for AI and Data Science Initiatives at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California, and Research Professor in Computer Science and in Spatial Sciences.

Her research is on intelligent interfaces for knowledge capture and discovery, which she investigates in a variety of projects concerning knowledge-based planning and problem solving, information analysis and assessment of trust, semantic annotation and metadata, and community-wide development of knowledge bases.

Dr. Gil collaborates with scientists in different domains on semantic workflows and metadata capture, social knowledge collection, computer-mediated collaboration, and automated discovery. She initiated and chaired the W3C Provenance Group that led to a community standard in this area.

She has been appointed to the National Science Board that governs the National Science Foundation. She is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and Past Chair of its Special Interest Group in Artificial Intelligence. She is also Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and was elected as its 24th President in 2016.

Ph.D., Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
M.S., Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
B.S., Computer Science, Polytechnic University of Madrid