Doctor in Physics, University of Milan (1972)
Maria Gini joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering in 1982 as an assistant professor and was later promoted to a professor. She also served as the associate head of the department from 2005-15. Gini is a member of ACM, IEEE, and the IEEE Robotics Society. She was named a Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor in 1987, was named a College of Science & Engineering Distinguished Professor in 2008, was named an IEEE Fellow in 2018, was named an ACM Fellow in 2019, and received the President’s Award for Outstanding Service in 2019.
Gini works on decision making for autonomous agents in many application domains, ranging from swarm robotics to distributed methods for allocation of tasks, methods for robots to explore unknown environments, navigation in dense crowds, and conversational agents.
Research Division
Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
Current Research
Google Scholar
Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Vision Lab
MAGNET: Intelligent Agents for Electronic Commerce
TAC-SCM: Autonomous Agents for Supply-Chain Management
Ph.D. Graduates
Richard Smith (1987); James GildeLamadrid (1990); Duane Olawsky (1990; co-advised with Michael Kac); Rajkumar Doshi (1990); Richard Roiger (1991); Steven Ratering (1992); Ashim Bose (1992); John Budenske (1993); Kurt Krebsbach (1993); Charles Sheaffer (1994); Daniel Challou (1995, co-advised by Vipin Kumar); Donald Krantz (1995); Dean Hougen (1998, co-advised with J. Slagle); Edward Sobiesk (2000); John Collins (2002); Paul Rybski (2003); Wolfgang Ketter (2007); Brett Borghetti (2008); Steven Jensen (2010); Shana Watters (2010); Maitreyi Nanjananth (2010); Touby Drew (2013); Baylor Wetzel (2014, co-advised with Wilma Koustaal); William Groves (2015); Erik Steinmetz (2016); James Parker (2016); Julio Godoy (2016); Ernesto Nunes (2017); Elizabeth Jensen (2018); Marie Manner (2018); Steven Damer (2019); Mark Valovage (2020); John Harwell (2022).
2019: President's Award for Outstanding Service
2019: ACM Fellows Program
2019: A. Nico Habermann Award
2018: National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) Harrold and Notkin Research and Graduate Mentoring Award
2017: IEEE Fellow
2016: Award for Outstanding Contributions to Postbaccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Education
2016: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Service Award
2012: INFORMS ISS Design Science Award
2011: Mullen-Spector-Truax Women's Leadership Award
2008: AAAI Fellow
2008: CSE Distinguished Professor
2006: ACM Distinguished Engineers, Scientists, and Members
2001: Distinguished Women Scholar Awards
1995: College of Continuing Education - Distinguished Teaching Award
1987: Horace T. Morse-Minnesota Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education
Selected Grants
Starting with CS1 to increase and retain women in the major
Gini, M. L.; Northeastern University; 2/21/20 - 6/30/23
AI-DCL: Addressing sociotechnical challenges of conversational agents and interventions in the context of elderly care
Gini, M. L.; National Science Foundation; 9/1/19 - 8/31/22
Multi-robot Allocation and Scheduling of Tasks with Temporal Constraints
M. Gini; Amazon Research; 2018