Candy Sidner is a retired Research Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute and is the author of more than 100 research papers on interacting with intelligent agents and robots and on dialog processing.   She has extensive experience in industrial research labs.  

Sidner is a Fellow (1991) and past Councilor of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, was elected a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 2013, and is a senior member of the IEEE since 2004.  She has served on multiple journal editorial boards, scientific committees and as general chairs for a number of conferences concerning AI and language processing.  She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT.  

2009-2022, Research Professor (retired),  Worcester Polytechnic Institute

2007-2010, Division Scientist, BAE Systems AIT; 

2007-2009 PI for Curriculum Team, DARPA Bootstrapped Learning Project

2000-2007, Senior Research Scientist, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

1993-2000, Senior Research Scientist, Lotus Development Corporation

1989--1993, Member of Technical Staff, Cambridge Research Lab, Digital Equipment Corp.

1990--1991, Research Affiliate, Spoken Language Group, Laboratory for Computer Science, MIT

1988--1989, Visiting Scholar, Harvard University.

1988--1989, Division Scientist, BBN Laboratories Inc. (on leave 88-89)

1983--1988, Senior Scientist, BBN Laboratories Inc.

1979--1983, Scientist, Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.