Candace Sidner

Candace Sidner, Ph.D. is a researcher and consultant with expertise in human communication and collaboration, and their application to agents, robots, and interfaces. Candy focuses on systems that are using gesture, social behavior, speech, and dialogue. She is a Research Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Candy is a Fellow and past Councilor of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, a Fellow and past President of the Association for Computational Linguistics, and is a senior member of the IEEE. She has written more than 100 technical papers, journal articles and book chapters on her research.

Most recently she was Principle Investigator (PI) of the Always On Relational Agent project with Chuck Rich at WPI and Tim Bickmore at Northeastern University, and co-PI for the ONR-sponsored WPI project: Collaborative Robot Learning from Demonstration Using Hierarchical Task Networks.

She holds a Ph.D, in Computer Science from MIT.