Prof. Ana Paiva is a Full Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon investigating the creation of intelligent interactive systems by designing social agents and robots that can learn and interact with humans in a natural and social manner. She is also a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She was the founder and leader of the INESC-ID group on AI for people and Society (GAIPS) and a WASP Guest Professor at Umea and Orebro Universities in Sweden. Over the years she has addressed this problem by engineering social agents that exhibit specific capabilities, including social perception, social learning, affective responses, non-verbal behavior, empathy, and collaboration, among others. Her more recent research combines methods from machine learning and artificial intelligence with social modelling to study hybrid societies of humans and machines. In particular she is investigating how to engineer agents and robots that are able to collaborate with humans in groups, leading to more transparent, prosocial and altruistic societies.
She has published extensively and received best paper awards in several conferences, notably, she won the Blue Sky Awards at the AAAI in 2018. She has further advanced the area of artificial intelligence and social agents worldwide, having served for the Global Agenda Council in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics of the World Economic Forum and as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Science Europe. She is a fellow of the AAAI, the EurAI, and ELLIS.

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