Ekaterini Panagiotou Sycara is a Greek computer scientist.
12 Facts About Katia Sycara
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Katia Sycara is an Edward Fredkin Research Professor of Robotics in the Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University internationally known for her research in artificial intelligence, particularly in the fields of negotiation, autonomous agents and multi-agent systems.
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Katia Sycara directs the Advanced Agent-Robotics Technology Lab at Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
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Katia Sycara serves as academic advisor for PhD students at both Robotics Institute and Tepper School of Business.
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Katia Sycara is a pioneer in the field of semantic web, case-based reasoning, autonomous agents and multi-agent systems.
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Katia Sycara is one of the contributors to the development of OWL-S, the Darpa-sponsored language for Semantic Web services, as well as matchmaking and brokering software for agent discovery, service integration and semantic interoperation.
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Katia Sycara was a founding member of the Board of Directors of the International Foundation of Multiagent Systems, and founding member of the Semantic Web Science Association.
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Katia Sycara is a Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and a Fellow of American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
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Katia Sycara is the recipient of the 2015 Group Decision and Negotiation Award of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences GDN Section for her outstanding contributions to the field of group decision and negotiation.
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Katia Sycara is widely acknowledged as one of the leading researchers in the field of autonomous software agents and in particular on problems related to joint decision making and negotiations of such agents.
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Katia Sycara's work is characterized by a unique combination of methods from Artificial Intelligence and research on human negotiations, and thus has contributed to significant advances in both fields.
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Katia Sycara was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of the Aegean in 2004.