2019 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Honorable Mention - Aishwarya Agrawal

Aishwarya Agrawal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the University of Montreal. She is a Canada CIFAR AI Chair and a core academic member of Mila -- Quebec AI Institute, and spends one day a week as a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. Aishwarya's research focus is on Multimodal AI research, specifically Vision-Language research. Aishwarya is a recipient of the 2025 Mark Everingham Prize, a Canada CIFAR AI Chair Award, a Young Alumni Excellence Award from IIT Gandhinagar, a Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, a Georgia Tech College of Computing Dissertation Award, a Google Fellowship (declined), a Facebook Fellowship (declined) and an NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship.