Cécile Paris
Cécile Laurence Paris is a computer scientist whose research has concerned natural language processing, user modeling, and collaborative intelligence. Originally French, she was educated in the United States and works in Australia as a chief research scientist for CSIRO, where she directed the Collaborative Intelligence (CINTEL) Research Program.[1]
Education and career
[edit]Paris's parents were French; she grew up in the former French West Africa, in Vietnam, and in France.[2] She was drawn to computer science in high school through an interest in mathematics and in programmable calculators.[3]
Paris did her undergraduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley with the support of an International Student Scholarship, and graduated with a bachelor's degree, with honours, in 1980. She continued her studies at Columbia University in New York City, where she received a master's degree in 1982 and completed her Ph.D. in 1987. Her doctoral dissertation, The Use of Explicit User Models in Text Generation: Tailoring Object Descriptions to a User’s Level of Expertise, was jointly supervised by Kathleen McKeown and Michael Lebowitz.[4]
From 1987 to 1994 she worked at the USC Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California, as a research scientist, project leader, and assistant research professor. From 1993 until 1996 she also worked at the University of Brighton in England as a research fellow in the Information Technology Research Institute. She moved to Australia and CSIRO in 1996. There, she became a senior principal research scientist and group leader in 2014, and a chief scientist in 2017. She has also held an affiliated faculty position at Monash University since 2018,[4] and is an honorary professor at Macquarie University.[5]
Recognition
[edit]Paris was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (FTSE) in 2016.[6] She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales (FRSN), elected in 2019.[7]
She was the 2024 recipient of the CSIRO Lifetime Achievement Award, given "for outstanding scientific contributions, impactful research and sustained performance achieving international recognition".[8]
References
[edit]- ↑ Daniel, Smriti (12 April 2023), From cancer survivor to collaborative intelligence driver: Meet Cécile Paris, CSIRO, retrieved 2026-09-14
- ↑ "Government: CSIRO's Cecile Paris tapping into social-media chatter", Sydney Morning Herald, 3 March 2015, retrieved 2026-09-14
- ↑ Donnellan, Alison (30 March 2021), Spotlight on Women in Tech – Dr Cecile Paris, CSIRO, retrieved 2026-09-14
- 1 2 Curriculum vitae (PDF), September 2021, retrieved 2026-09-14
- ↑ "Cecile Paris", Profiles, Macquarie University, retrieved 2026-09-14
- ↑ "Dr Cecile Paris", Our Fellows, Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, retrieved 2026-09-14
- ↑ List of Fellows, Royal Society of New South Wales, retrieved 2026-09-14
- ↑ Ward, Colin (23 January 2026), "The CSIRO Lifetime Achievement Award", CSIROpedia, CSIRO, retrieved 2026-09-14
External links
[edit]- Home page at CSIRO
- Cécile Paris publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Living people
- French emigrants to Australia
- French computer scientists
- French women computer scientists
- Australian computer scientists
- Australian women computer scientists
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- Columbia University alumni
- University of Southern California staff
- CSIRO people
- Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
- Fellows of the Royal Society of New South Wales
