| Manuela M. Veloso | |
|---|---|
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | Portuguese |
| Fields | Robotics |
| Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Alma mater | Carnegie Mellon University Boston University Instituto Superior Técnico |
| Doctoral advisor | Jaime Carbonell |
Manuela M. Veloso is a Portuguese Computer Scientist and Roboticist and the Herbert A. Simon Professor at the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. She is the President of the International RoboCup Federation and a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. She is an international expert in multi-agent systems.[1] and the author of the book Planning And Learning By Analogical Reasoning.[2]
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Manuela Veloso received her Licenciatura and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico 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 from August, 1999 to August, 2000 and a Radcliffe Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. 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 is a member of the Editorial Board of the AAAI Magazine. She serves as the President of the Robot Cup Federation and as President Elect of the Association for the Advancement of Artiffical Intelligence.
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".
Manuela Veloso is married and mother of two sons.