Sheila McIlraith

Professor of Computer Science at University of TorontoCanada CIFAR AI Chair at Vector InstituteAssociate Director and Research Lead at Schwartz Reisman Institute

McIlraith helped advance automated planning: systems that reason through sequences of actions while respecting goals, preferences and safety constraints. Her work connects symbolic reasoning with reinforcement learning and program synthesis, aiming for AI that can follow human instructions without harmful side effects.