Manuela Veloso
| Manuela M. Veloso | |
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| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | Portuguese, American |
| Fields | Computer Science, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence |
| Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Alma mater |
Carnegie Mellon University Boston University Instituto Superior Técnico |
| Thesis | Learning by Analogical Reasoning in General Purpose Problem Solving (1992) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jaime Carbonell |
| Doctoral students |
Astro Teller Peter Stone |
Manuela Maria Veloso is the Herbert A. Simon University Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. She was the President of AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) until 2014, and the co-founder and a Past President of the RoboCup Federation. She is a fellow of AAAI, IEEE, AAAS, and ACM. She is an international expert in artificial intelligence and robotics.
Manuela Veloso received her Licenciatura and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon, Portugal) in 1980 and 1984, respectively. She then attended Boston University, and received a M.A. in Computer Science in 1986. 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 advised by Jaime Carbonell.
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 CUSP at 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. She was appointed as the head of Carnegie Mellon's Machine Learning Department in 2016.
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