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Yolanda Gil is a Research Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California (USC) and a Principal Scientist at the USC Information Sciences Institute. She received her Doctoral and Master's degrees in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor's degree from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. Her research emphasizes artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and intelligent systems, with a focus on knowledge capture and discovery. Gil has led various collaborative projects and co-chaired the CRA/AAAI 20-Year Artificial Intelligence Research Roadmap. She has initiated standards in the field, notably through her leadership in the W3C Provenance Group. A Fellow of prominent organizations including the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE, she was awarded the Geological Society of America's M. Lee Allison Award for her significant contributions to Geoinformatics and Data Science. Gil is also set to serve a six-year term on the National Science Board, appointed by President Biden.
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