Leila Amgoud

Leila Amgoud (born 1972) is an Algerian and French computer scientist, a director of research for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), the deputy director of the Toulouse Institute of Computer Science Research (IRIT), and the holder of a chair for argumentation in the Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute (ANITI). Her research involves argumentation for explainable artificial intelligence.

Education and career
Amgoud was born in 1972 in Algeria, and studied at the Algerian Higher National School of Computer Science. She has a 1999 PhD from Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier University. Her doctoral dissertation, Contribution a l'integration des preferences dans le raisonnement argumentatif, was sustained under the direction of Claudette Cayrol.

She became a researcher for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in 2001, after postdoctoral research in England. She was named a director of research for the CNRS in 2007. In 2009, she completed a habilitation with the thesis Contributions to argumentation theory and its applications.

Recognition
Amgoud is a fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence.