Una-May O'Reilly is an American computer scientist and leader of the Anyscale Learning For All (ALFA) group at the

MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is a research institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) formed by the 2003 merger of the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) and the Artificial Intelligence Lab ...

Early life and education

O'Reilly earned her undergraduate degree at the

University of Calgary The University of Calgary (U of C or UCalgary) is a public research university located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The University of Calgary started in 1944 as the Calgary branch of the University of Alberta, founded in 1908, prior to being ins ...

. She was a graduate student at the

Carleton University Carleton University is an English-language public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1942 as Carleton College, the institution originally operated as a private, non-denominational evening college to serve returning Wo ...

, where she studied computer science. During her doctorate O'Reilly worked as a graduate fellow at the

Santa Fe Institute The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) is an independent, nonprofit theoretical research institute located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States and dedicated to the multidisciplinary study of the fundamental principles of complex adaptive systems, inclu ...

. Her dissertation was one of the first to explore

genetic programming In artificial intelligence, genetic programming (GP) is a technique of evolving programs, starting from a population of unfit (usually random) programs, fit for a particular task by applying operations analogous to natural genetic processes to t ...

. She joined the

as a postdoctoral fellow in 1996.

Research and career

O'Reilly is a principal research scientist at the

, where she leads a team focusing on scalable machine learning. Her research group, Anyscale Learning For All (ALFA), conducts research in cybersecurity, rapid intelligent data analytics and the modelling of medical data. O'Reilly has designed computational models for a variety of different problems, including calculating the financial risk of renewable energy investments and creating a flavor algorithm that replaces taste testers. O'Reilly has developed statistical models to inform the design of renewable energy systems, including predicting wind speed. In 2013 she was awarded the EvoStar award for Outstanding Contribution to Evolutionary Computation in Europe. O'Reilly has received various awards and honours for her work in

; including being elected to the Executive Board of the ACM Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
SIGevo
(formerly International Society of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation).

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References

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