Marie desJardins
Marie desJardins earned a Berkeley doctorate in May 1992, advised by Stuart Russell. Her dissertation, PAGODA, modeled autonomous learning in probabilistic domains. desJardins worked at the SRI AI Center from 1991 to 2001 and at UMBC from 2001 to 2018. Her research interests include distributed and mixed-initiative planning, preference learning and multiagent systems. desJardins became an inaugural Simmons college dean and computer science professor in 2018. She received the 2020 AAAI/EAAI Outstanding Educator Award and works on K–12 computing, pedagogical innovation and ethics education.
- Now at
- Simmons University
- Works
- 137
- Citations
- 2,331
- h-index
- 27
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Timeline
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1992
Autonomous learning doctorate
Marie desJardins earned a Berkeley doctorate in May 1992, advised by Stuart Russell. Her dissertation, PAGODA, modeled autonomous learning in probabilistic domains.
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1991–2018
AI research and university work
desJardins worked at the SRI AI Center from 1991 to 2001 and at UMBC from 2001 to 2018. Her research interests include distributed and mixed-initiative planning, preference learning and multiagent systems.
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2018–2020
Education and leadership
desJardins became an inaugural Simmons college dean and computer science professor in 2018. She received the 2020 AAAI/EAAI Outstanding Educator Award, and her research program includes K–12 computing, pedagogical innovation and ethics education.
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