Carla Gomes | |
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 Gomes in 2006 | |
| Born | Carla Pedro Gomes |
| Alma mater | Technical University of Lisbon University of Edinburgh |
| Awards | AAAI Fellow (2007) Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2013) ACM Fellow (2017) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Artificial intelligence Computational sustainability |
| Institutions | Cornell University |
| Thesis | Achieving global coherence by exploiting conflict : a distributed framework for job shop scheduling (1992) |
| Doctoral advisor | Austin Tate Lyn Thomas[1] |
| Website | www |
Carla Pedro Gomes is a Portuguese-Americancomputer scientist and professor atCornell University. She is the founding Director of theInstitute for Computational Sustainability and is noted for her pioneering work in developing computational methods to address challenges in sustainability.[2][3] She has conducted research in a variety of areas of artificial intelligence and computer science, includingconstraint reasoning,mathematical optimization, and randomization techniques forexactsearch methods,algorithm selection,multi-agent systems, andgame theory.[4] Her work incomputational sustainability includes ecological conservation, rural resource mapping, andpattern recognition formaterial science.[5][6][7]
Gomes received her master's degree in applied mathematics from theTechnical University of Lisbon in 1987 and her PhD in computer science from theUniversity of Edinburgh in 1993.[1][8]
Following her PhD, she worked at theAir Force Research Laboratory for five years before joiningCornell University as a research associate in 1998. She served as the Director of the Intelligent Information Systems Institute at Cornell from 2001 to 2008, and joined the faculty in 2003 as an associate professor with joint appointments in the Departments of Computing and Information Science, Applied Economics and Management, and Computer Science. In 2008, Gomes received a $10 million grant from theNational Science Foundation to create theInstitute for Computational Sustainability to develop computational methods for environmental, economic, and social sustainability.[9] She became a full professor in the Departments of Computer Science, Information Science and the Dyson School of Economics and Management in 2010.In 2011, she was a visiting fellow at theRadcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In 2022, she co-leads the Schmidt AI in Science initiative at Cornell withFengqi You.[10]
Gomes was elected a Fellow of theAssociation for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 2007 "for significant contributions to constraint reasoning and the integration of techniques from artificial intelligence, constraint programming, and operations research".[11]She was elected a Fellow of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science in 2013.[12]WithBart Selman andHenry Kautz, she received the 2016Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Classic Paper Award for their 1998 paperBoosting Combinatorial Search through Randomization, which provided "significant contributions to the area of automated reasoning and constraint solving through the introduction of randomization and restarts into complete solvers".[13]She was elected aFellow of theAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 2017.[14]
