Carla Gomes

Carla Gomes
Carla Gomes at FLoC 2006.jpg
Born
Carla Pedro Gomes
Alma materTechnical University of Lisbon
University of Edinburgh
AwardsAAAI Fellow (2007)
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2013)
ACM Fellow (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsArtificial intelligence
Computational sustainability
InstitutionsCornell University
ThesisAchieving global coherence by exploiting conflict : a distributed framework for job shop scheduling (1992)
Doctoral advisorAustin Tate
Lyn Thomas[1]
Websitewww.cs.cornell.edu/gomes

Carla Pedro Gomes is a Portuguese-American computer scientist and professor at Cornell University. She is the founding Director of the Institute for Computational Sustainability and is noted for her pioneering work in developing computational methods to address challenges in sustainability.[2][3] She has conducted research in a variety of areas of artificial intelligence and computer science, including constraint reasoning, mathematical optimization, and randomization techniques for exact search methods, algorithm selection, multi-agent systems, and game theory.[4] Her work in computational sustainability includes ecological conservation, rural resource mapping, and pattern recognition for material science.[5][6][7]

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  5. ^ Biba, Erin (26 April 2016). "Three ways artificial intelligence is helping to save the world | Ensia". ensia.com. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
  6. ^ Steele-Cornell, Bill (20 February 2015). "App tracks Kenya's best places to graze - Futurity". Futurity.
  7. ^ Tingley, Kim (24 September 2014). "Forging a New Path: The Perfect Wildlife Corridor". Pacific Standard.