Sylvie Thiébaux is a French-Australian computer scientist, whose research in

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...

focuses on

automated planning and scheduling Automated planning and scheduling, sometimes denoted as simply AI planning, is a branch of artificial intelligence that concerns the realization of strategies or action sequences, typically for execution by intelligent agents, autonomous robots ...

diagnosis Diagnosis (: diagnoses) is the identification of the nature and cause of a certain phenomenon. Diagnosis is used in a lot of different academic discipline, disciplines, with variations in the use of logic, analytics, and experience, to determine " ...

, and

automated reasoning In computer science, in particular in knowledge representation and reasoning and metalogic, the area of automated reasoning is dedicated to understanding different aspects of reasoning. The study of automated reasoning helps produce computer progr ...

under

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. She is a professor of computer science at the

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public university, public research university and member of the Group of Eight (Australian universities), Group of Eight, located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton, A ...

, and co-editor-in-chief of the journal ''

Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...

''.

Education and career

Thiébaux earned an engineering diploma from the

Institut national des sciences appliquées de Rennes The Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rennes (; "Rennes National Institute for Applied Sciences") or INSA Rennes is a ''Grande École d'Ingénieurs'', a School of Engineering, under the authority of the French Ministry of Education a ...

in 1991, and a master's degree from the

Florida Institute of Technology Florida Institute of Technology (Florida Tech or FIT) is a private research university in Melbourne, Florida. The university comprises four academic colleges: Engineering & Science, Aeronautics, Psychology & Liberal Arts, and Business. Approxim ...

in 1992. She completed a Ph.D. in 1995 at the

University of Rennes 1 The University of Rennes 1 was a public university located in Rennes, France. It was founded in 1970, after splitting of the historic University of Rennes into two universities. On January 1, 2023, the University of Rennes 1 merged with five gra ...

, under the direction of Marie-Odile Cordier. After working as a researcher for the

French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation The National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria) () is a French national research institution focusing on computer science and applied mathematics. It was created under the name French Institute for Research in Comp ...

(INRIA) and

CSIRO The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an Australian Government agency that is responsible for scientific research and its commercial and industrial applications. CSIRO works with leading organisations arou ...

in Australia, she joined the Australian National University in 2001. She was affiliated as a researcher with

NICTA NICTA (formerly named National ICT Australia Ltd) was Australia's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence and is now known as CSIRO's Data61. The term "Centre of Excellence" is common marketing terminology ...

and its successor within CSIRO,

Data61 The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an Australian Government agency that is responsible for scientific research and its commercial and industrial applications. CSIRO works with leading organisations arou ...

, from 2003 to 2018, and directed the NICTA Canberra laboratory from 2009 to 2011.

Recognition

Thiébaux was named a Fellow of the

Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) is an international Learned society, scientific society devoted to promote research in, and responsible use of, artificial intelligence. AAAI also aims to increase public under ...

in 2020, "for significant contributions to algorithms and applications of planning and scheduling, and service to the AI community".

References

External links

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Thiebaux, Sylvie Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Australian computer scientists Australian women computer scientists French computer scientists French women computer scientists Academic staff of the Australian National University Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence