Dr. Yolanda Gil is Director of Knowledge Technologies and Associate Division Director at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California, and Research 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 semantic workflows. Dr. Gil was elected to the Council of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and served in the Advisory Committee of the Computer Science and Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation. She recently led the W3C Provenance Group, an effort to chart the state-of-the-art and posit standardization efforts in this area. In 2010 she was elected Chair of ACM SIGART, the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence.