Dr. Yolanda Gil is Associate Division Director at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California, and Research Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department.  She received her M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.  Dr. Gil leads a group that conducts research on various aspects of Interactive Knowledge Capture.  Her research interests include intelligent user interfaces, knowledge-rich problem solving, scientific and grid computing, and the semantic web.  An area of recent interest is large-scale distributed data analysis through knowledge-rich computational workflows.  Dr. Gil was Program Chair of the Intelligence User Interfaces (IUI) Conference in 2002, was co-founder and co-chair of the First International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP) in 2001, and was program co-chair of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in 2005. She was elected to the Council of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and was program co-chair of the AAAI conference in 2006.  She serves in the Advisory Committee of the Computer Science and Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation.