Associate Professor
Pratt Building, Room 398D
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
6 King's College Road
Toronto, Ontario
M5S 3G4, CANADA
Sam Roweis' directions for visitors to the universityphone: 416-946-8484
fax: 416-978-1455
email: sheila [at] cs [dot] toronto [dot] edu
url: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~sheila/
admin: Luna Keshwah, 416-946-0161
Sheila McIlraith joined the Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto in 2004. Prior to joining U of T, Prof. McIlraith spent six years as a Research Scientist at Stanford University, and one year at Xerox PARC. McIlraith's research is in the area of knowledge representation and automated reasoning. She is an associate editor of the journal Artificial Intelligence and past program co-chair of the International Semantic Web Conference. McIlraith's early work on Semantic Web Services has had notable impact. Her research has also made contributions to the development of next-generation NASA space systems and to emerging Web standards.
McIlraith's principal areas of research include:
- KRR for the Semantic Web, including representation and automated composition of Web Services
- reasoning about action and planning, including planning with preferences and temporally extended goals
- diagnostic problem solving (diagnosis, testing and repair) of discrete and hybrid (discrete + continuous) dynamical systems
- reasoning with logical theories, including detecting and exploiting structure in logical theories to improve the efficiency of reasoning
- mathematical foundations of KRR
Links to some of McIlraith's Research Projects (sorry most are woefully out of date!):
- Planning and Agent programming with Qualitative User Preferences.
- Building Web service ontologies and Web agents for next-generation semantic Web services
- Modeling and diagnosing discrete and hybrid dynamical systems
- Detecting and exploiting structure in logical theories to improve the efficiency of reasoning, and for distributed query answering