Leslie P. Kaelbling | |
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Nationality | American |
Fields |
Robotics Computer Science |
Institutions |
SRI International Brown University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Alma mater | Stanford University |
Thesis | Learning in Embedded Systems (1990) |
Doctoral advisor | Nils J. Nilsson |
Doctoral students |
Michael L. Littman Hagit Shatkay |
Known for | Partially observable Markov decision process |
Notable awards |
IJCAI Computers and Thought Award (1997) AAAI Fellow (2000) |
Website people |
Leslie Pack Kaelbling is an American roboticist, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was a graduate of Stanford University (Ph.D., 1990) and a student of Nils J. Nilsson. Her research focuses on decision-making under uncertainty, machine learning, and sensing with applications to robotics.
She is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Machine Learning Research. In 2000, she was elected as a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
On March 16, 2012, Kaelbling was selected as an MIT MacVicar Fellow for her dedication to undergraduate teaching. As a recipient of this prestigious award, Kaelbling will receive a $10,000 annual stipend for the duration of the 10-year fellowship.