Maria Gini
Maria Gini
is Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the University of Minnesota,
where she is a member of
the Academy of Distinguished Teachers. She is the winner of the
Inaugural Distinguished Women Scholars Award from the University of
Minnesota (2001).
Before joining the University of Minnesota she has been a Research
Associate at the Politecnico of Milan, Italy, and a Visiting Research
Associate at Stanford University.
Her research interests are in using Artificial Intelligence to create
autonomous entities, such as robots and intelligent software agents.
Her major contributions include robot motion planning, robot
navigation, planning with incomplete or uncertain information,
coordination of multiple robots, and negotiation strategies for
agents.
She has coauthored over 100 technical papers.
She is currently the chair of ACM SIGART (2003-2007), a member of the
AAAI Executive Council (2005-), and a member of the board of the
Intelligent Autonomous Systems society. She is on the editorial board
of the journals "Autonomous Robots" and "Integrated Computer-Aided
Engineering", "Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International
Journal," and "International Journal of Information Technology and
Web Engineering."
She is the Chair for Distributed Autonomous Robotics Systems 2006.
She was the General Co-Chair for the 1th Int'l Conference on
Autonomous
Agents and Multi-Agent Systems in 2002, and the General Chair for the
7th
Int'l Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems in 2002.
