Co-Chair Career Mentoring Workshop, CMW
veloso@cmu.edu
Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mmv/
Manuela M. Veloso is Herbert A. Simon Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. She directs the CORAL research laboratory, for the study of agents that Collaborate, Observe, Reason, Act, and Learn, www.cs.cmu.edu/~coral. Professor Veloso is IEEE Fellow, AAAI Fellow, AAAS Fellow, the President of the RoboCup Federation, and the President Elect of AAAI. She recently received the 2009 ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award for her contributions to agents in uncertain and dynamic environments, including distributed robot localization and world modeling, strategy selection in multiagent systems in the presence of adversaries, and robot learning from demonstration. Professor Veloso is the author of one book on "Planning by Analogical Reasoning" and editor of several other books. She is also an author in over 250 journal articles and conference papers.