Carla Gomes facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Carla Gomes
Born	Carla Pedro Gomes
Alma mater	Technical University of Lisbon University of Edinburgh
Awards	AAAI Fellow (2007) Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2013) ACM Fellow (2017)
Scientific career
Fields	Artificial intelligence Computational sustainability
Institutions	Cornell University
Thesis	Achieving global coherence by exploiting conflict : a distributed framework for job shop scheduling (1992)
Doctoral advisor	Austin Tate Lyn Thomas

Carla Pedro Gomes is a Portuguese-American computer scientist. She is a professor at Cornell University. She is famous for starting the Institute for Computational Sustainability. This institute uses computer science to help solve big problems. These problems are about keeping our planet healthy for the future.

Her work combines different areas of computer science. These include artificial intelligence (AI) and mathematical optimization. She also uses special search methods and game theory. Her research helps with things like protecting nature. It also helps map resources in rural areas. She even uses computers to find patterns in new materials.

Education

Carla Gomes studied applied mathematics. She earned her master's degree in 1987. This was from the Technical University of Lisbon. Later, she earned her PhD in computer science. She received this degree in 1993 from the University of Edinburgh.

Career and Research

After getting her PhD, Carla Gomes worked for five years. She was at the Air Force Research Laboratory. In 1998, she joined Cornell University. She started there as a research associate.

From 2001 to 2008, she led a special group. This was the Intelligent Information Systems Institute at Cornell. In 2003, she became an associate professor. She worked in several departments at Cornell. These included Computer Science and Applied Economics.

In 2008, she received a large grant. It was $10 million from the National Science Foundation. This money helped her create the Institute for Computational Sustainability. The goal was to use computers to help with environmental, economic, and social problems. She became a full professor in 2010. She teaches in Computer Science and Information Science.

In 2011, she was a visiting scholar. This was at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In 2022, she began co-leading a new project. It is called the Schmidt AI in Science initiative at Cornell. She works with Fengqi You on this project.

Awards and Honors

Carla Gomes has received many important awards. In 2007, she became a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. This award recognized her important work. She helped combine AI with other computer methods.

In 2013, she was also elected a Fellow. This was by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

In 2016, she won a special award. It was the Classic Paper Award. She shared it with Bart Selman and Henry Kautz. They won for their 1998 paper. This paper showed new ways to use randomization in computer searches. Their ideas helped make computer problem-solving much better.

She became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 2017. This is another high honor in computer science.

See also

In Spanish: Carla Gomes para niños

• Computational sustainability
• Environmental informatics