Sylvie Thiébaux is a French-Australian computer scientist, whose research inartificial intelligence focuses onautomated planning and scheduling,diagnosis, andautomated reasoning underuncertainty. She is a professor of computer science at theAustralian National University,[1] and co-editor-in-chief of the journalArtificial Intelligence.[2]
Thiébaux earned an engineering diploma from theInstitut national des sciences appliquées de Rennes in 1991, and a master's degree from theFlorida Institute of Technology in 1992.[3] She completed a Ph.D. in 1995 at theUniversity of Rennes 1, under the direction ofMarie-Odile Cordier.[4]
After working as a researcher for theFrench Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) andCSIRO in Australia, she joined the Australian National University in 2001. She was affiliated as a researcher withNICTA and its successor within CSIRO,Data61, from 2003 to 2018, and directed the NICTA Canberra laboratory from 2009 to 2011.[3]
Thiébaux was named a Fellow of theAssociation for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 2020, "for significant contributions to algorithms and applications of planning and scheduling, and service to the AI community".[5]
