Ana Paiva

Ana Paiva is a Full Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IST (“Instituto Superior Técnico”), University of Lisbon, and a senior researcher at INESC-ID. She is also a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. With more than three decades dedicated to research in Artificial Intelligence, her work focuses on the creation of autonomous agents and robots capable of interacting and collaborating with humans. In 2000, she founded GAIPS (Group on AI for People and Society), one of the internationally leading research groups in Social Artificial Intelligence, which she led for twenty years. She has published more than 300 papers in top conferences and journals, including IJCAI, AAAI, AAMAS, CHI, AIJ, JAAMAS, among others. She is a Fellow of AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence), EurAI (European Association for Artificial Intelligence), and ELLIS (European Laboratory.In 2024, she served as the Secretary of State for Science in the XXIV Portuguese Government, overseeing national science and technology policies.