Maria Gini

Maria Gini is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science
and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. She specializes in
Artificial Intelligence and robotics, in particular robot planning,
navigation in unknown environments, coordinated behaviors of
autonomous robots, search and rescue applications, and economic agents.

She is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial
Intelligence, a Distinguished Scientist of the Association for
Computing Machinery, a Distinguished Professor of the Institute of
Technology at the University of Minnesota, and the winner of numerous
awards at the University of Minnesota, including the Distinguished
Women Scholars Award, and the Morse-Alumni Award for Outstanding
Contributions to Undergraduate Education.

She is currently the chair of the ACM Special Interest Group
on Artificial Intelligence (SIGART), a member of the CRA-W board
co-chairing the Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates
(DREU) program, and a member of the board of the Autonomous Agents
and Multi-Agent Systems society. She is on the editorial board of
numerous journals, including Autonomous Robots, Autonomous Agents and
Multi-Agent Systems, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications,
Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, and Web Intelligence and
Agent Systems.