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Candy Sidner (aka Candace Sidner)

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Research Experience

Research Experience

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 Ad

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.  

Research Experience

Research Experience

Research Experience

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

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.

Education

Research Experience

Education


Ph.D. Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


M.S. Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh


B.A. cum laude Mathematics, Kalamazoo College

CV For Candy sidner

SidnerResume2022 (pdf)Download

A Sampling of Pottery

    List of Selected Publications

    Companionable Agents to Support Isolated Older Adults (pdf)Download
    Appraisal for Human Robot Collaboration (pdf)Download
    Simultaneous Learning of Hierarchy & Primitives for Complex Robot Tasks (pdf)Download
    Explorations in Engagement for Humans & Robots (pdf)Download
    Using Collaborative Discourse Theory to Partially Automate Dialogue Tree Authoring (pdf)Download
    A Reusable Framework for Health Counseling Dialogue Systems based on a Behavioral Medicine Ontology (pdf)Download
    Robots and Avatars as Hosts, Advisors, Companions, and Jesters (pdf)Download
    Automated Explanation of Research Informed Consent by Virtual Agents (pdf)Download
    A Real-Time Architecture for Embodied Conversational Agents: Beyond Turn-Taking (pdf)Download
    A Design Methodology for Expressing Emotion on Robot Faces (pdf)Download
    COLLAGEN: A Collaboration Manager for Software Interface Agents (pdf)Download
    Attention, Intention and the Structure of Discourse. (pdf)Download
    Teaching Robots New Tasks through Natural Interaction (pdf)Download
    Augmented Intelligence: The Business Power of Human-Machine Collaboration (rtf)Download

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