Francesca Rossi

Francesca Rossi (born December 7, 1962) is an Italian computer scientist, doing research in artificial intelligence. She is a full professor at the University of Padua.[1] She is the president of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and is Associate Editor in Chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research.

For the Italian Olympic basketball player, see Francesca Rossi (basketball).
Francesca Rossi
Born (1962-12-07) December 7, 1962
Ancona, Italy
Alma materUniversity of Pisa
Scientific career
FieldsArtificial intelligence
InstitutionsUniversity of Padua

Education and career

She received her Laurea in Information Science from the University of Pisa in 1986, and a PhD in Computer Science from the same university in 1993.

She was an assistant professor (1992–1998) at the University of Pisa and an associate professor (1999–2001) of Computer Science at the University of Padua.

Since 2001 she is full professor of Computer Science at the University of Padua and currently on sabbatical as a Fellow of Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University.

Research interests

Her research on artificial intelligence has a particular emphasis on preference modeling and reasoning, constraint processing, multi-agent systems.[2] She has published widely in international journals and conferences[3] and also edited several volumes, including the Handbook of Constraint Programming. She co-authored a book on preferences and social choice.[4]

Awards and honors
  • Radcliffe Fellow, 2014–2015
  • President, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 2013 – 2015
  • Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) fellow, 2012
  • Association for Constraint Programming distinguished service award, 2010
  • European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI) fellow, 2008[5]
  • President of the Association for Constraint Programming, 2003–2007
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References
  1. "University of Padua faculty page". University of Padua. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
  2. "Radcliffe Institute fellows". Radcliffe Institute. 2014-04-22. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
  3. Francesca Rossi at DBLP Bibliography Server
  4. "A Short Introduction to Preferences: Between Artificial Intelligence and Social Choice". Francesca Rossi, Kristen Brent Venable, TobyWalsh, Synthesis Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, July 2011.
  5. "Fellows | European Association for Artificial Intelligence". www.eurai.org. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
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