Yolanda Gil

Spanish-born American computer scientist

Yolanda Gil is a Spanish-born American computer scientist specializing in knowledge discovery and knowledge-rich intelligent user interfaces at the University of Southern California (USC). She served as president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and chair of the Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIGAI) for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).2

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Born 1963.1

About

Gil was appointed to the National Science Board in 2024.

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Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedTechnical University of Madrid3
  • Date not recordedCarnegie Mellon University3

Gil is from Madrid, and earned a licenciate in Computer Science from the Technical University of Madrid in 1985. She did her graduate studies at Carnegie Mellon University, completing her Ph.D. in 1992. Her dissertation on planning and learning was supervised by Jaime Carbonell.

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Career

Occupation: university teacher, computer scientist.7

Gil joined the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) at the University of Southern California (USC) in 1992. She is a research professor of Computer Science and Spatial Sciences, Senior Director for AI and Data Science Initiatives, and director of the Center for AI Research for Health.

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Personal life

  • Born1963, Madrid8
  • CitizenshipSpain9

Awards

  • 2020Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science10 13
  • 2016ACM Fellow10 12
  • 2012AAAI Fellow10 11

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