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Manuela M. Veloso

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Manuela Veloso
Manuela Veloso at theAlan Turing Centenary ConferenceinManchesterin 2012
Born
Manuela Maria Veloso

(1957-08-12)August 12, 1957(age 66)
NationalityPortuguese,American
Alma materInstituto Superior Técnico-University of Lisbon(MSc)
Boston University(MA)
Carnegie Mellon University(PhD)
AwardsNational Science Foundation CAREER Award(1995)
ACM Fellow(2016)
AAAI Fellow(2003)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsArtificial Intelligence
Robotics
Planning
Learning
Multi-agent systems[2]
InstitutionsJPMorgan Chase
Carnegie Mellon University
ThesisLearning by Analogical Reasoning in General Purpose Problem Solving(1992)
Doctoral advisorJaime Carbonell[3]
Doctoral studentsAstro Teller
Peter Stone[3]
Websitewww.cs.cmu.edu/~mmv

Manuela Maria Veloso(born August 12, 1957) is the Head ofJ.P. MorganAI Research[4]&Herbert A. SimonUniversityProfessorEmeritus[5]in the School of Computer Science atCarnegie Mellon University,where she was previously Head of the Machine Learning Department. She served as president ofAssociation for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence(AAAI) until 2014, and the co-founder and a Past President of theRoboCupFederation. She is a fellow ofAAAI,Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE),American Association for the Advancement of Science(AAAS), andAssociation for Computing Machinery(ACM). She is an international expert in artificial intelligence and robotics.[2][6]

Education[edit]

Manuela Veloso received herLicenciaturaandMaster of Sciencedegree inelectrical engineeringfrom Lisbon'sInstituto Superior Técnicoin 1980 and 1984 respectively. She then attendedBoston University,and received aMaster of Artsincomputer sciencein 1986.[citation needed]She moved toCarnegie Mellon Universityand received herPh.D.in computer science there in 1992. Her thesisLearning by Analogical Reasoning in General Purpose Problem Solvingwas supervised byJaime Carbonell.[3]

Career and research[edit]

Shortly after receiving her Ph.D., Manuela Veloso joined the faculty of theCarnegie Mellon School of Computer Scienceas anassistant professor.She was promoted to the rank ofassociate professorin 1997, and full professor in 2002. Veloso was a visiting professor at theMassachusetts Institute of Technologyfor the academic year 1999-2000, a Radcliffe Fellow of theRadcliffe Institute for Advanced Study,Harvard Universityfor the academic year 2006-2007, and a visiting professor atCenter for Urban Science and Progress(CUSP) atNew York University(NYU) for the academic year 2013-2014. She is the winner of the 2009 ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award. She was the Program Chair for IJCAI-07, held January 6–12, 2007, in Hyderabad, India and was program co-chair of AAAI-05, held July 9–13, 2005, in Pittsburgh. She was a member of the Editorial Board of CACM and the AAAI Magazine. She is the author of one book on Planning by Analogical Reasoning. As of 2015, Veloso has graduated 32 PhD students.[3][7]She was appointed as the head of Carnegie Mellon's Machine Learning Department[8]in 2016.[9]

Veloso describes her research goals as the "effective construction of autonomous agents where cognition, perception, and action are combined to address planning, execution, and learning tasks".[10]Veloso and her students have researched and developed a variety of autonomous robots, including teams of soccer robots, and mobile service robots. Her robot soccer teams have been RoboCup world champions several times, and the CoBot mobile robots have autonomously navigated for more than 1,000 km in university buildings.[11]In a November 2016 interview, Veloso discussed the ethical responsibility inherent in developing autonomous systems, and expressed her optimism that the technology would be put to use for the good of humankind.[12]

Honors and awards[edit]

Veloso is featured in the Notable Women in Computing cards.[15]

References[edit]

  1. ^ab"Elected AAAI Fellows".Aaai.org.Retrieved17 November2018.
  2. ^abManuela M. Velosopublications indexed byGoogle ScholarEdit this at Wikidata
  3. ^abcdManuela M. Velosoat theMathematics Genealogy ProjectEdit this at Wikidata
  4. ^"J.P. Morgan Artificial Intelligence".Retrieved7 September2019.
  5. ^"Manuela Veloso Ranked Among Most Influential Women in Engineering".Retrieved3 October2023.
  6. ^Russell, Stuart;Hauert, Sabine;Altman, Russ;Veloso, Manuela (2015)."Robotics: Ethics of artificial intelligence".Nature.521(7553): 415–418.Bibcode:2015Natur.521..415..doi:10.1038/521415a.ISSN0028-0836.PMID26017428.
  7. ^Veloso, Manuela."Professor".Cs.cmu.edu.
  8. ^University, Carnegie Mellon."Machine Learning - Carnegie Mellon University".Machine Learning - Carnegie Mellon University.Retrieved17 November2018.
  9. ^"Manuela Veloso Named Head of Machine Learning Department | Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science".Cs.cmu.edu.23 March 2016.Retrieved2016-03-23.
  10. ^University, Carnegie Mellon."Manuela Veloso-Mechanical Engineering - Carnegie Mellon University".Cmu.edu.Retrieved2016-03-23.
  11. ^"People of ACM - Manuela Veloso".Acm.org.
  12. ^"Humanity and AI Will Be Inseparable".Theverge.15 November 2016.
  13. ^"Einstein Chair Professor".Cs.ustc.cn.Archived fromthe originalon 2018-07-20.Retrieved2018-07-20.
  14. ^"Manuela Veloso".Awards.acm.org.Retrieved2018-07-01.
  15. ^"Notable Women in Computing".
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