Sheila Ann McIlraith is a Canadian computer scientist specializing in artificial intelligence.
McIlraith earned her PhD at the University of Toronto[5] under the supervision of Raymond Reiter.
[7] McIlraith’s research is in the area of AI knowledge representation and reasoning, automated planning, and machine learning where she currently studies sequential decision-making, broadly construed, with a focus on human-compatible AI.
[11] McIlraith was elected an ACM Fellow in 2019 "for contributions to knowledge representation and its applications to automated planning and semantic web services".
[1][12] She was also elected an AAAI Fellow in 2011 “for significant contributions to knowledge representation, reasoning about action, and the formal foundations of the semantic web and diagnostic problem solving”.