Manuela Veloso
Professor Emeritus, Machine Learning
Manuela Veloso joined the faculty of the Computer Science Department in 1992 after earning her Ph.D. She has led the Machine Learning Department since 2016. She is world renowned for her expertise on AI, Machine Learning, Robotics and Computer Science, her research on teams of autonomous agents, exemplified by her work on robot soccer, and pioneered the concept of “Symbiotic Autonomy” with her CoBot robots. She is a past president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and of the RoboCup Federation. She is a fellow of the ACM, AAAI, AAAS and IEEE.
Education
1992 Ph.D., Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
1986 M.A., Computer Science, Boston University
1984 M.Sc., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Tecnico
1980 Licenciatura in Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Tecnico