Ana Maria Severino de Almeida e Paiva is Secretary of State for Science in Portugal since April 5th, 2024. She was a full professor at the University of Lisbon. Her work is around

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and

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. She is an elected fellow of the

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Education and career

Paiva earned her PhD from Lancaster University. In 2013 she became a full Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at

Instituto Superior Técnico Instituto Superior Técnico MHSE • MHIP (IST, also known colloquially as Técnico, and stylized TÉCNICO LISBOA) is a public school of engineering and technology, part of University of Lisbon. It was founded as an autonomous school in 1911 ...

within the University of Lisbon. She is also the coordinator of the human-robot interaction focused research group Group on Artificial Intelligence for People and Society (GAIPS). From 2020 to 2021, Paiva was the Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow at the

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Selected publications

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Awards and honors

In 2018, Paiva received first place in the Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Paiva was named a fellow for the European Association for Artificial Intelligence in 2019 and of the

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in 2023.

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* *, April 9, 2018 Living people Portuguese women computer scientists Academic staff of the University of Lisbon Alumni of Lancaster University Fellows of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Year of birth missing (living people) {{Compu-scientist-stub