Italian and Canadian computer scientist
Cristina Conati is an Italian and Canadian computer scientist specializing in artificial intelligence and computer-human interaction. She is a professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia, and has served as president of the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing.
Conati earned a master's degree in computer science from the University of Milan in 1988, and a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1999. Her dissertation, "An intelligent computer tutor to guide self-explanation while learning from examples", was supervised by Kurt VanLehn. She joined the University of British Columbia faculty in 1999, and became a full professor there in 2016.
With Yukiko Nakano and Thomas Bader, Conati is an editor of the book "Eye Gaze in Intelligent User Interfaces: Gaze-based Analyses, Models and Applications" (Springer, 2013).
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