معرفی
Katia Sycara is a Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, part of the School of Computer Science. She also holds the Sixth Century Chair (part-time) in Computing Science at the University of Aberdeen, UK. Her research focuses on multi-agent systems, human-robot interaction, game theory, and adversarial reasoning. She leads the Advanced Agent-Robotics Technology Lab and has developed frameworks like the RETSINA multiagent infrastructure.
Education: B.S. in Applied Mathematics (Brown University), M.S. Electrical Engineering (University of Wisconsin), Ph.D. Computer Science (Georgia Tech), Honorary Doctorate (University of the Aegean, 2004).
Research interests include semantic web services, agent interoperability, crisis response systems, and negotiation support. She has pioneered work on the DAML-S language for semantic web services and contributed to the OASIS UDDI standard.
Notable awards include the 2002 ACM SIGART Agents Research Award and AAAI Fellowship. She has led multimillion-dollar projects funded by DARPA, NASA, AFOSR, and ONR, focusing on applications like autonomous robotics, urban search and rescue, and enterprise integration.
Awards:
- ACM SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award (2002)
- AAAI Fellow (2002)
- IEEE Fellow (2013)
- Outstanding Alumnus (University of Wisconsin, 2005)
Grants and Projects:
- Command and Control of Multi-Robot Teams (ONR)
- Games on Graphs (MURI/ONR)
- Urban Search and Rescue (NASA)
Labs/Teams: Director of Advanced Agent-Robotics Technology Lab and contributor to the Semantic Web Science Association.
