Ana Paiva Explained

Ana Paiva
Alma Mater:	University of Lisbon, Instituto Superior Técnico
Thesis Title:	Dynamic user and learner modeling
Thesis Url:	https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/
Thesis Year:	1995

Ana Maria Severino de Almeida e Paiva is Secretary of State for Science in Portugal since April 5th, 2024.^[1] She was a full professor at the University of Lisbon. Her work is around artificial intelligence and robotics. She is an elected fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence.

Education and career

Paiva earned her PhD from Lancaster University.^[2] In 2013 she became a full Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico within the University of Lisbon.^[3] She is also the coordinator of the human-robot interaction focused research group Group on Artificial Intelligence for People and Society (GAIPS).^[4]

From 2020 to 2021, Paiva was the Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.^[5]

Selected publications

• Leite . Iolanda . Martinho . Carlos . Paiva . Ana . Social Robots for Long-Term Interaction: A Survey . International Journal of Social Robotics . April 2013 . 5 . 2 . 291–308 . 10.1007/s12369-013-0178-y. 3721600 .
• Book: Dias . João . Mascarenhas . Samuel . Paiva . Ana . FAtiMA Modular: Towards an Agent Architecture with a Generic Appraisal Framework . Emotion Modeling . Lecture Notes in Computer Science . 2014 . 8750 . 44–56 . 10.1007/978-3-319-12973-0_3. 978-3-319-12972-3 .
• Paiva. Ana. Dias. João. Sobral. Daniel. Aylett. Ruth. Woods. Sarah. Hall. Lynne. Zoll. Carsten. Learning by Feeling: Evoking Empathy with Synthetic Characters. Applied Artificial Intelligence. 9 March 2005. 19. 3–4. 235–266. 10.1080/08839510590910165. 2299/6127. 6305752. 0883-9514. free.

Awards and honors

In 2018, Paiva received first place in the Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.^[6] Paiva was named a fellow for the European Association for Artificial Intelligence in 2019^{[7] [8]} and of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 2023.^[9]

External links

• • , April 9, 2018

Notes and References

1. Web site: Secretaries of State - Education . www.portugal.gov.pt.
2. Book: Paiva, Ana Maria Severino de Almeida e. Dynamic user and learner modeling.. 1995. University of Lancaster. English. 557394907.
3. Web site: ORCID. 2022-01-02. orcid.org.
4. Web site: Home. 2021-10-12. gaips.inesc-id.pt.
5. Web site: Ana Paiva. 2022-01-02. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. en.
6. Web site: 2018-03-01. Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at AAAI-18. 2022-01-02. CRN. en-US.
7. Web site: 2019-07-03. Ana Paiva Elected EurAI Fellow. 2022-01-02. INESC-ID. en-US.
8. Web site: Fellows European Association for Artificial Intelligence. 2022-01-02. www.eurai.org.
9. Web site: Elected AAAI Fellows . 2024-01-02 . AAAI . en-US.