Manuela M. Veloso

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Manuela Veloso
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Manuela Veloso at the Alan Turing Centenary Conference in Manchester in 2012
Born
Manuela Maria Veloso

(1957-08-12) August 12, 1957 (age 66)
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.cs.cmu.edu/~mmv

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] [6]

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Education

Manuela Veloso received her Licenciatura and Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Lisbon's Instituto Superior Técnico in 1980 and 1984 respectively. She then attended Boston University, and received a Master of Arts in computer science in 1986.[ citation needed ] She moved to Carnegie Mellon University and received her Ph.D. in computer science there in 1992. Her thesis Learning by Analogical Reasoning in General Purpose Problem Solving was supervised by Jaime Carbonell. [3]

Career and research

Shortly after receiving her Ph.D., Manuela Veloso joined the faculty of the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science as an assistant professor. She was promoted to the rank of associate professor in 1997, and full professor in 2002. Veloso was a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the academic year 1999-2000, a Radcliffe Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University for the academic year 2006-2007, and a visiting professor at Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) at New 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

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

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  2. 1 2 Manuela M. Veloso publications indexed by Google Scholar OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  3. 1 2 3 4 Manuela M. Veloso at the Mathematics Genealogy Project OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  4. ↑ "J.P. Morgan Artificial Intelligence" . Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  5. ↑ "Manuela Veloso Ranked Among Most Influential Women in Engineering" . Retrieved 3 October 2023.
  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 . ISSN   0028-0836. PMID   26017428.
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  8. ↑ University, Carnegie Mellon. "Machine Learning - Carnegie Mellon University". Machine Learning - Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
  9. ↑ "Manuela Veloso Named Head of Machine Learning Department | Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science". Cs.cmu.edu. 23 March 2016. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
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  12. ↑ "Humanity and AI Will Be Inseparable". Theverge.com. 15 November 2016.
  13. ↑ "Einstein Chair Professor". Cs.ustc.cn. Archived from the original on 2018-07-20. Retrieved 2018-07-20.
  14. ↑ "Manuela Veloso". Awards.acm.org. Retrieved 2018-07-01.
  15. ↑ "Notable Women in Computing".
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