Fanya Montalvo

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Fanya S. Montalvo is a Mexican computer scientist born in Monterey, Mexico. She earned a Ph.D. in computer and information science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1976, with a dissertation titled Aftereffects, Adaptation, and Plasticity: A Neural Model for Tunable Feature Space, supervised by Michael Anthony Arbib. Montalvo has worked as a research scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Hewlett-Packard, MIT, and Digital Equipment Corporation. Her work focuses on inconsistency robustness. She serves on the governing board of the International Society for Inconsistency Robustness and is noted by Rosalind Picard for her involvement in emotional computing. She coined the term "AI-complete" to describe tasks that are as hard as solving strong AI.