EDUCATION

Executive Summary

Kathy McCoy is a Professor of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Delaware and co-Director of the University of Delaware Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence (AICoE). Her research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics/Natural Language Generation, and Accessibility for People with Disabilities. She joined the University of Delaware in 1985 after receiving her MS and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. McCoy served as Department Chair for Sept 2015-Aug 2021, and from Sept 2013 – Feb 2024 she served as contractor/technical consultant for the National Institute on Disability Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) which is part of the Administration for Community Living in the US Department of Health and Human Services. In this capacity, she served as Co-Chair of the US Interagency Committee on Disability Research Subcommittee on Assistive Technology.

McCoy received the University of Delaware Excellence in Teaching Award in May 1997, the University of Delaware Excellence in Advising Award in May 2001, and the College of Arts and Science Outstanding Advisor Award in May 2003. She has extensively served the research community including as Treasurer/Secretary-Treasurer and Member of the Executive Committee of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) (1998-2007), Founding President of the ACL Special Interest Group on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SIG-SLPAT) (2011-2013), Co-Editor in Chief of the ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (2013-2019), and in various conference leadership positions of the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. She is currently Vice-Chair of ACM SIGACCESS (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing).

Research Areas

• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• Computing Foundations