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{{short description|Portuguese-American computer scientist}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Manuela M. Veloso
| name = Manuela Veloso
| image = Manuela Veloso IMG 2376.jpg
| birth_name = Manuela Maria Veloso
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| caption = Manuela Veloso at the [[Alan Turing Centenary Conference]] in [[Manchester]] in 2012
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age |1957|8|12|mf=y}}
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| residence = United States
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| nationality = [[Portugal|Portuguese]], American
| nationality = [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]], American
| field = [[Computer Science]], [[Robotics]], [[Artificial Intelligence]]
| field = [[Artificial Intelligence]]<br>[[Robotics]]<br>[[AI planning|Planning]]<br>[[Machine learning|Learning]]<br>[[Multi-agent systems]]<ref name=gs/>
| work_institution = [[Carnegie Mellon University]]
| work_institution = [[JPMorgan Chase]]<br>[[Carnegie Mellon University]]
| alma_mater = [[Carnegie Mellon University]]<br>[[Boston University]]<br>[[Instituto Superior Técnico]]
| alma_mater = [[Instituto Superior Técnico]] - [[University of Lisbon]] (MSc)<br>[[Boston University]] (MA)<br>[[Carnegie Mellon University]] (PhD)
| awards = [[National Science Foundation CAREER Awards|National Science Foundation CAREER Award]] (1995)<br>[[ACM Fellow]] (2016)<br>[[AAAI Fellow]] (2003)<ref name=faaai>{{cite web|url=https://www.aaai.org/Awards/fellows-list.php|title=Elected AAAI Fellows|website=Aaai.org|access-date=17 November 2018}}</ref>
| doctoral_advisor = [[Jaime Carbonell]]
| doctoral_advisor = [[Jaime Carbonell]]<ref name=mathgene>{{MathGenealogy}}</ref>
| doctoral_students= [[Astro Teller]]<br>[[Peter Stone (professor)|Peter Stone]]
| doctoral_students = [[Astro Teller]]<br>[[Peter Stone (professor)|Peter Stone]]<ref name=mathgene/>
| thesis_title = Learning by Analogical Reasoning in General Purpose Problem Solving
| thesis_title = Learning by Analogical Reasoning in General Purpose Problem Solving
| thesis_year = 1992
| thesis_url = http://search.library.cmu.edu/vufind/Record/421096
| thesis_year = 1992
| thesis_url = http://search.library.cmu.edu/vufind/Record/421096
| website = {{URL|www.cs.cmu.edu/~mmv}}
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'''Manuela Maria Veloso''' (born August 12, 1957) is the Head of [[JPMorgan Chase|J.P. Morgan]] AI Research<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jpmorgan.com/global/technology/artificial-intelligence|title=J.P. Morgan Artificial Intelligence|access-date=7 September 2019}}</ref> & [[Herbert A. Simon]] University [[Professor]] Emeritus<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2021/july/veloso-ranks-among-influential-engineers.html|title=Manuela Veloso Ranked Among Most Influential Women in Engineering|access-date=3 October 2023}}</ref> in the School of Computer Science at [[Carnegie Mellon University]], where she was previously Head of the Machine Learning Department.
'''Manuela Maria Veloso''', is the Head of the Machine Learning Department at [[Carnegie Mellon University]] & [[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]], [[American Association for the Advancement of Science|AAAS]], and [[Association for Computing Machinery|ACM]]. She is an international expert in artificial intelligence and robotics.
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.<ref name=gs>{{Google scholar id}}</ref><ref name=nature>{{cite journal|first1=Stuart|last1= Russell|author-link1=Stuart J. Russell
|first2=Sabine|last2=Hauert|author-link2=Sabine Hauert|first3=Russ|last3= Altman|author-link3=Russ Altman|first4=Manuela|last4= Veloso|title=Robotics: Ethics of artificial intelligence|journal=Nature|volume=521|issue=7553|year=2015|pages=415–418|issn=0028-0836|doi=10.1038/521415a|pmid= 26017428|bibcode= 2015Natur.521..415.|doi-access=free}}</ref>


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==Education==
In May 2018 she was hired by [[J.P. Morgan Chase]] as to head its artificial intelligence research.<ref name="SonJPMorgan">{{cite news|last1=Son|first1=Hugh|title=JP Morgan's latest hire shows what the hottest field at investment banks is right now|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/03/jp-morgans-latest-hire-shows-what-the-hottest-field-at-investment-banks-is-right-now.html|accessdate=May 4, 2018|publisher=CNBC|date=May 3, 2018}}</ref>
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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|date=November 2018}} 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]].<ref name=mathgene/>


==Career and research==
==Biography==
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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.<ref name=mathgene/><ref>{{cite web|last=Veloso|first=Manuela|title=Professor|url=https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mmv|website=Cs.cmu.edu}}</ref> She was appointed as the head of Carnegie Mellon's Machine Learning Department<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ml.cmu.edu/|title=Machine Learning - Carnegie Mellon University|first=Carnegie Mellon|last=University|website=Machine Learning - Carnegie Mellon University|access-date=17 November 2018}}</ref> in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/manuela-veloso-named-head-machine-learning-department|title=Manuela Veloso Named Head of Machine Learning Department {{!}} Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science|website=Cs.cmu.edu|date=23 March 2016|access-date=2016-03-23}}</ref>


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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".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cmu.edu/me/people/veloso.html|title=Manuela Veloso-Mechanical Engineering - Carnegie Mellon University|last=University|first=Carnegie Mellon|website=Cmu.edu|access-date=2016-03-23}}</ref> 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&nbsp;km in university buildings.<ref>{{cite web|title=People of ACM - Manuela Veloso|url=https://www.acm.org/articles/people-of-acm/2016/manuela-veloso|website=Acm.org}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Humanity and AI Will Be Inseparable|url=https://www.theverge.com/a/verge-2021/humanity-and-ai-will-be-inseparable|website=Theverge.com|date=15 November 2016}}</ref>
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===Education===
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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 [[Master of Arts|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]].


===Career===
===Honors and awards===
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* [[National Science Foundation CAREER Awards|National Science Foundation CAREER Award]] in 1995.
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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 [[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.<ref>{{cite web|last=Veloso|first=Manuela|title=Professor|url=http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mmv}}</ref> She was appointed as the head of Carnegie Mellon's [http://www.ml.cmu.edu/ Machine Learning Department] in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/manuela-veloso-named-head-machine-learning-department|title=Manuela Veloso Named Head of Machine Learning Department {{!}} Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science|website=www.cs.cmu.edu|access-date=2016-03-23}}</ref>

===Research===
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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".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cmu.edu/me/people/veloso.html|title=Manuela Veloso-Mechanical Engineering - Carnegie Mellon University|last=University|first=Carnegie Mellon|website=www.cmu.edu|access-date=2016-03-23}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|title=People of ACM - Manuela Veloso|url=https://www.acm.org/articles/people-of-acm/2016/manuela-veloso}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Humanity and AI Will Be Inseparable|url=https://www.theverge.com/a/verge-2021/humanity-and-ai-will-be-inseparable}}</ref>

==Honors and awards==
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* [[National Science Foundation]] CAREER award in 1995.
* Allen Newell Medal for Excellence in Research in 1997.
* Allen Newell Medal for Excellence in Research in 1997.
* 2003 [[AAAI Fellow]]<ref name=faaai/>
* 2003 [[Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence|AAAI]] Fellow
* 2006/2007 Radcliffe Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
* 2006/2007 Radcliffe Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
* 2010 [[IEEE]] Fellow
* 2010 [[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers]] (IEEE) Fellow
* 2010 [[American Association for the Advancement of Science|AAAS]] Fellow
* 2010 [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]] (AAAS) [[Fellow]]
* 2009 ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award
* 2009 ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}
* 2012 Einstein Chair Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences<ref>{{cite web|title=Einstein Chair Professor|url=http://en.cs.ustc.edu.cn/news_8/201201/t20120116_128841.html}}</ref>
* 2012 Einstein Chair Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences<ref>{{cite web|title=Einstein Chair Professor|url=http://cs.ustc.edu.cn/xwxx/xw/201201/t20120116_128840.html|website=Cs.ustc.cn|access-date=2018-07-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180720110203/http://cs.ustc.edu.cn/xwxx/xw/201201/t20120116_128840.html|archive-date=2018-07-20|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 2016 [[ACM Fellow]], for "contributions to the field of artificial intelligence, in particular in planning, learning, multi-agent systems, and robotics."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://awards.acm.org/award_winners/veloso_4988599|title=Manuela Veloso|website=Awards.acm.org|language=en|access-date=2018-07-01}}</ref>
* 2016 [[Association for Computing Machinery|ACM]] Fellow<ref>{{cite web|title=ACM Fellows|url=http://awards.acm.org/fellow/year.cfm}}</ref>


Veloso is featured in the Notable Women in Computing cards.<ref>{{Cite web| title = Notable Women in Computing| url = http://www.cs.duke.edu/csed/wikipedia/cards.html}}</ref>
==See also==
*[[AAAI]]
*[[RoboCup]]


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mmv/ Home Page]


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

(1957-08-12) August 12, 1957 (age 67)
NationalityPortuguese, American
Alma materInstituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon (MSc)
Boston University (MA)
Carnegie Mellon University (PhD)
AwardsNational Science Foundation CAREER Award (1995)
ACM Fellow (2016)
AAAI Fellow (2003)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsArtificial Intelligence
Robotics
Planning
Learning
Multi-agent systems[2]
InstitutionsJPMorgan Chase
Carnegie Mellon University
ThesisLearning by Analogical Reasoning in General Purpose Problem Solving (1992)
Doctoral advisorJaime Carbonell[3]
Doctoral studentsAstro Teller
Peter Stone[3]
Websitewww.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]

Education

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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

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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

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

References

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  1. ^ a b "Elected AAAI Fellows". Aaai.org. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
  2. ^ a b Manuela M. Veloso publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ a b c d Manuela M. Veloso at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Edit this at Wikidata
  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.
  7. ^ Veloso, Manuela. "Professor". Cs.cmu.edu.
  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.
  10. ^ University, Carnegie Mellon. "Manuela Veloso-Mechanical Engineering - Carnegie Mellon University". Cmu.edu. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
  11. ^ "People of ACM - Manuela Veloso". Acm.org.
  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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