Manuela Veloso — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Head of J.P. Morgan AI Research.
Herbert A. Simon University Professor Emerita at Carnegie Mellon University.
Recipient of the 2009 ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award.
Co-founder and Past President of the RoboCup Federation.
Previously led the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University.
Known for research in autonomous robots, including multi-world champion RoboCup soccer teams and CoBot mobile robots that navigated over 1,000 km.
Authored a book on Planning by Analogical Reasoning.

Biography

Manuela Veloso is the Head of J.P. Morgan AI Research and holds the title of Herbert A.

Simon University Professor Emerita in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Recognized as an international expert in artificial intelligence and robotics, she previously served as the Head of Carnegie Mellon's Machine Learning Department.