Cristina Conati
Professor of Computer Science and Distinguished Scholar at the Sauder School of Business
Academic Information
M.Sc. (Honors), University of Milan (1988); Research Fellow, I.R.S.T. Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (1989-1991); Research Programmer Carnegie Mellon University (1992); M.Sc., University of Pittsburgh (1995); Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh (1999); Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia (1999-2005), Associate Professor, University of British Columbia (2006 - 2016), Professor (2016); Distinguished Scholar, Sauder School of Business (2020)
Research Areas
Research Groups
Interests
Cristina's research is at is at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), and Cognitive Science, with the goal to create AI systems that can both perform useful tasks and be well accepted by their users. A key aspect of this endeavor is enabling AI systems to predict and monitor relevant properties of their users (e.g., states, skills, needs, emotions) and personalize the interaction accordingly, in a manner that maximizes both task performance as well user satisfaction. Toward this goal, Cristina is especially interested in investigating how to enable AI technology to strike the right balance between providing accurate predictions and decision-making while maintaining transparency, user control, and trust.
For more details on current and past projects, see https://hai.cs.ubc.ca/