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,[1] and has served as president of the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing.
[1] Her dissertation, An intelligent computer tutor to guide self-explanation while learning from examples, was supervised by Kurt VanLehn.
[3] She joined the University of British Columbia faculty in 1999, and became a full professor there in 2016.
[1] 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).