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Sheila McIlraith is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, a Canada CIFAR AI Chair (Vector Institute), and an Associate Director and Research Lead at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society. Prior to joining the University of Toronto, Prof. McIlraith spent six years as a Research Scientist at Stanford University, and one year at Xerox PARC. McIlraith’s research is in the area of sequential decision making, broadly construed, with a focus on human-compatible AI. She also has a particular interest in the ethics of AI and the impact of AI on society. McIlraith is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Associate Editor for the Journal of AI Research (JAIR), and a past Associate Editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence. McIlraith is past Program Co-Chair of the 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the 13th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2012), and the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2004), as well as past Conference Co-Chair of the 34th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS). McIlraith and co-authors have received a number of paper awards from premier international venues including multiple tests-of-time awards, recognizing influential and impactful work.