Barbara Di Eugenio
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Barbara Di Eugenio is an Italian-American computer scientist, the Collegiate Warren S. McCulloch Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago.[1] Her research focuses on natural language processing and its applications to human–computer interaction, educational technology, and artificial intelligence in healthcare.[2]
Di Eugenio is originally from Turin.[1] After an undergraduate education in Italy,[2] she completed her Ph.D. in computer and information science in 1993 at the University of Pennsylvania.[1] Her dissertation, Understanding Natural Language Instructions: A Computational Approach to Purpose Clauses, was supervised by Bonnie Webber.[3]
She became a faculty member at the University of Illinois Chicago in 1999, and at that time was the only woman faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.[4]