Biography:Manuela M. Veloso
Manuela Veloso | |
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 Manuela Veloso at the Alan Turing Centenary Conference in Manchester in 2012 | |
| Born | Manuela Maria Veloso August 12, 1957 |
| Nationality | Portuguese, American |
| Alma mater | Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon (MSc) Boston University (MA) Carnegie Mellon University (PhD) |
| Awards | National Science Foundation CAREER Award (1995) ACM Fellow (2016) AAAI Fellow (2003)[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Artificial Intelligence Robotics Planning Learning Multi-agent systems[2] |
| Institutions | JPMorgan Chase Carnegie Mellon University |
| Thesis | Learning by Analogical Reasoning in General Purpose Problem Solving (1992) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jaime Carbonell[3] |
| Doctoral students | Astro Teller Peter Stone[3] |
| Website | www |
Manuela Maria Veloso (born August 12, 1957) is the Head of J.P. Morgan AI Research[4] & Herbert A. Simon University Professor Emeritus[5] in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, where she was previously Head of the Machine Learning Department.
She served as president of Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) until 2014, and the co-founder and a Past President of the RoboCup Federation. She is a fellow of AAAI, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). She is an international expert in artificial intelligence and robotics.[2]Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag She was appointed as the head of Carnegie Mellon's Machine Learning Department[6] in 2016.[7]
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".[8] 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.[9] 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.[10]
Honors and awards
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 1995.
- Allen Newell Medal for Excellence in Research in 1997.
- 2003 AAAI Fellow[1]
- 2006/2007 Radcliffe Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
- 2010 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow
- 2010 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow
- 2009 ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award[citation needed]
- 2012 Einstein Chair Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences[11]
- 2016 ACM Fellow, for "contributions to the field of artificial intelligence, in particular in planning, learning, multi-agent systems, and robotics."[12]
Veloso is featured in the Notable Women in Computing cards.[13]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Elected AAAI Fellows". https://www.aaai.org/Awards/fellows-list.php.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 {{Google Scholar id}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Manuela M. Veloso at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "J.P. Morgan Artificial Intelligence". https://www.jpmorgan.com/global/technology/artificial-intelligence.
- ↑ "Manuela Veloso Ranked Among Most Influential Women in Engineering". https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2021/july/veloso-ranks-among-influential-engineers.html.
- ↑ University, Carnegie Mellon. "Machine Learning - Carnegie Mellon University". http://www.ml.cmu.edu/.
- ↑ "Manuela Veloso Named Head of Machine Learning Department | Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science". 23 March 2016. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/manuela-veloso-named-head-machine-learning-department.
- ↑ University, Carnegie Mellon. "Manuela Veloso-Mechanical Engineering - Carnegie Mellon University". https://www.cmu.edu/me/people/veloso.html.
- ↑ "People of ACM - Manuela Veloso". https://www.acm.org/articles/people-of-acm/2016/manuela-veloso.
- ↑ "Humanity and AI Will Be Inseparable". 15 November 2016. https://www.theverge.com/a/verge-2021/humanity-and-ai-will-be-inseparable.
- ↑ "Einstein Chair Professor". http://cs.ustc.edu.cn/xwxx/xw/201201/t20120116_128840.html.
- ↑ "Manuela Veloso" (in en). https://awards.acm.org/award_winners/veloso_4988599.
- ↑ "Notable Women in Computing". http://www.cs.duke.edu/csed/wikipedia/cards.html.
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