DEBORAH L. MCGUINNESS, PhD

Tetherless World Senior Constellation Chair
Professor of Computer Science and Cognitive Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute  

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SELECTED HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Deborah Louise McGuinness Virtual Solar Terrestrial Observatory, Vancouver, Canada, 2007. Semantic Web Science Association 10 year award for recognition of the highest impact paper from the International Semantic Web proceedings 10 years prior. http://swsa.semanticweb.org/content/swsa-ten-year-award 2020

International Semantic Web Conference Best resources paper award for Explanation Ontology: A Model of Explanations for User-Centered AI. 2020.

Elected as a Member-at-Large of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Section on Information, Computing, & Communication. She has a four year term from February 2019 - 2023.

Diversity Day Keynote Speaker for the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, August, 2016.

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2013 “for contributions to the Semantic Web, knowledge representation, and reasoning environments.”

Robert Engelmore Memorial Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Award, 2013 "for leadership in Semantic Web research and in bridging AI and eScience, significant contributions to deployed AI applications, and extensive service to the AI community."

Rutgers University Distinguished Alumni - https://www.cs.rutgers.edu/people/distinguished-alumni

Best Paper Award, 2013, 46th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS)

Informatics Advisory Board, Encyclopedia of Life, 2013-2017.

Fellow of the Web Science Research Initiative, April 2007.

Deployed application award from the Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, for the General Motors Variation Reduction Advisor, San Jose, 2005.

Duke University Honored Alumna, December 2002.