Biography:Barbara Di Eugenio
Barbara Di Eugenio is an Italian-American computer scientist, the Collegiate Warren S. McCulloch Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago.[1] Her research focuses on natural language processing and its applications to human–computer interaction, educational technology, and artificial intelligence in healthcare.[2]
Education and career
Di Eugenio is originally from Turin.[1] After an undergraduate education in Italy,[2] she completed her Ph.D. in computer and information science in 1993 at the University of Pennsylvania.[1] Her dissertation, Understanding Natural Language Instructions: A Computational Approach to Purpose Clauses, was supervised by Bonnie Webber.[3]
She became a faculty member at the University of Illinois Chicago in 1999, and at that time was the only woman faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.[4]
Recognition
In 2022, Di Eugenio received the Zenith Award of the Association for Women in Science.[4] She was named as a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 2023, "for outstanding contributions to natural language generation; intelligent tutoring systems; discourse; intercoder agreement; and applying multimodal interactive systems to health".[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Barbara Di Eugenio", Computer Science profiles (University of Illinois Chicago), https://cs.uic.edu/profiles/barbara-di-eugenio/, retrieved 2026-02-28
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "University Scholar Barbara Di Eugenio", UIC Today (University of Illinois Chicago), March 21, 2019, https://today.uic.edu/university-scholar-barbara-di-eugenio/, retrieved 2026-02-28
- ↑ Di Eugenio, Barbara (1993), Understanding Natural Language Instructions: A Computational Approach to Purpose Clauses, University of Pennsylvania, ProQuest 304091001
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "A career rewarded", College of Engineering (University of Illinois Chicago), https://engineering.uic.edu/a-career-rewarded/, retrieved 2026-02-28
- ↑ ACL Fellows 2023, Association for Computational Linguistics, December 12, 2023, https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-fellows-2023, retrieved 2026-02-28
External links
- Barbara Di Eugenio publications indexed by Google Scholar
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