Welcome!

Manuela M. Veloso
Herbert A. Simon Professor
Computer Science Department
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890, USA
email: my last name at cmu dot edu
tel:(412) 268-1474, fax:(412) 268-4801
office: Gates Hillman Center (GHC) 7002

Short vitae

TEACHING:

Fall 2010 - 15-887, Planning, Execution, and Learning, co-taught with Reid Simmons.
Fall 2010 - 15-491, CMRoboBits - Creating Intelligent Humanoid Robots - PROJECT-BASED COURSE.

RESEARCH:

CORAL - My research group on intelligent robots that Cooperate, Observe, Reason, Act, and Learn.
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
This list is automatically generated from my LaTeX bibfile.
Send me email to my last name at cs.cmu.edu, if you would like to have the bibstyle file I wrote to do the automatic translation.
Also please see below the PhD theses of my students.

Robot Soccer:

Our CORAL/Robot Soccer page for research and news.
RoboCup'11 will take place in Istanbul, July 4-10, 2011.
RoboCup Wiki.

V-Unit: An opportunity "to grow a Vision" of novel ways for Computer Science and Technology to impact the world:

See a description of the V-Unit and send me email if you are interested in taking a V-Unit.
The V-Unit is linked to the Technology Bridge World effort.

Current PhD Students:

Sarah Aboutalib, Computer Science
Nicholas Armstrong-Crews, Robotics (co-advise with Geoff Gordon)
Stephanie L. Rosenthal, Computer Science (co-advise with Anind Dey)
Somchaya Liemhetcharat, Robotics
Susana Brandao, Electrical and Computer Engineering (co-advise with Joao Paulo Costeira, IST, Lisbon)
Brian Coltin, Robotics
Prashant Reddy, Machine Learning
Mehdi Samadi, Computer Science (co-advise with Manuel Blum)
Felipe Trevizan, Machine Learning
Cetin Mericli, Computer Science, Bogazici Universsity, Istanbul, Turkey (co-advise with Levent Akin, Bogazici University)

Past Advised Students:

Stefan Zickler - Ph.D. CS, May 2010, iRobot.
Thesis and videos: "Physics-Based Robot Motion Planning In Dynamic Multi-Body Environments"
Sonia Chernova - Ph.D. CS, May 2009, postdoc MIT Media Lab, Assistant Professor WPI.
Thesis: "Confidence-Based Robot Policy Learning from Demonstration"
Elisabeth Crawford - Ph.D. CS, May 2009, startup company.
Thesis: "Learning to Improve Negotiation in Semi-Cooperative Agreement Problems"
Colin McMillen - Ph.D. CS, May 2009, reCaptcha, Google.
Thesis: "Thresholded-Rewards Decision Problems: Acting Effectively in Timed Domains"
Brenna Argall (co-advised with Brett Browning) - Ph.D. RI, May 2009, postdoc EPFL.
Thesis: "Learning Mobile Robot Motion Control from Demonstration and Corrective Feedback"
Yang Gu - Ph.D. CS, August 2008, startup company.
Thesis: "Effective Motion Tracking Using Known and Learned Actuation Models"
Douglas Vail - Ph.D. CS, May 2008, Google, Pittsburgh.
Thesis: "Conditional Random Fields for Activity Recognition"
Elly Winner - Ph.D. CS, May 2008.
Thesis: "Learning Domain-Specific Planners From Example Plans
Maayan Roth (co-advised with Reid Simmons) - Ph.D. Robotics, September 2007, Google, Haifa.
Thesis: "Execution-Time Communication Decisions for Coordination of Multi-Agent Teams"
Juan Fasola - MSc. CS, August 2007, PhD student at USC.
James Bruce - Ph.D. CS, December 2006, at Google, Mountain View.
Thesis: "Real-Time Motion Planning and Safe Navigation in Dynamic Multi-Robot Environments"
Kristina Rohlin (co-advised with Brett Browning), M.Sc. Robotics, May 2007, in the U.S. Navy.
Scott Lenser - Ph.D. CS, August 2005, at iRobot, MA.
Thesis: "On-line Robot Adaptation to Environmental Change"
Patrick Riley - Ph.D. CS, March 2005, at Google, Mountain View.
Thesis: "Coaching: Learning and Using Environment and Agent Models for Advice"
Dinesh Govindaraju, M.Sc. Robotics, 2006, Singapore.
John Gavin, M.Sc. CS, 2005, at Microsoft Research.
Jeremy Searock, (co-advised with Brett Browning), M.Sc. Robotics, 2005, in the U.S. Navy.
Francesco Tamburrino, M.Sc. Robotics, 2004, in Italy.
Rune Jensen - Ph.D. CS, June 2003, Associate Professor at IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Thesis: "Efficient BDD-Based Planning for Non-Deterministic, Fault-Tolerant, and Adversarial Domains"
Michael Bowling - Ph.D. CS, May 2003, Associate Professor at University of Alberta, Canada.
Thesis: "Multiagent Learning in the Presence of Agents with Limitations"
Paul Carpenter - M.Sc. CS, 2003, at the ICT, LA.
William Uther - Ph.D. CS, August 2002, Researcher, National ICT, Sydney, Australia.
Thesis: "Tree Based Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning"
Belinda Thom - Ph.D. CS, December 2001.
Thesis: "BoB: An Improvisational Music Companion"
Bryan Singer - Ph.D. CS, December 2001, NSA, Washington, DC.
Thesis: "Stochastic Search for Signal Processing Algorithm Optimization"
Peter Stone - Ph.D. CS, December 1998, Professor at University of Texas, Austin.
Thesis: "Layered Learning in Multi-Agent Systems"
Astro Teller - Ph.D. CS, December 1998, CEO and founder of BodyMedia, Inc., Pittsburgh.
Thesis: "Neural Programming and Signal Understanding"
Kwun Han - 1998, Gigapixel, Inc., Palo Alto, CA.
Karen Haigh - Ph.D. CS, May 1998, BBN.
Thesis: "Situation-Dependent Learning for Interleaved Planning and Robot Execution"
Yury Smirnov - Ph.D. CS, August 1997, CEO and founder of Akonite, Inc., CA.
Thesis: "Hybrid Algorithms for On-Line and Combinatorial Optimization Problems"

ROBOT SOCCER:

RoboCup-2007, the 11th International RoboCup Competitions and Symposium, July 1- July 10, Atlanta, USA.
- Our CMDragons'07 team for the small-size league is world champion.
- Our CMPack'07 team for the AIBO league came in 3rd place.
RoboCup-2006, the 10th International RoboCup Competitions and Symposium, Bremen, Germany.
- Our CMDragons'06 team for the small-size league is world champion.
RoboCup-2005, the 9th International RoboCup Competitions and Symposium, July 13-19, 2005, Osaka, Japan.
2005 RoboCup USOpen, May 7-10, 2005, Georgia Tech in Atlanta.
RoboCup-2004, the 8th International RoboCup Competitions and Symposium, June 27 - July 5, 2004, Lisbon, Portugal.
The 2004 RoboCup US Open, April 24-27, 2004, University of New Orleans:
- Our CMPack'04 team for the AIBO league is champion.
- Our CMOwl'04 team for the coach simulation league is champion.
- Our CMLoki'04 team for the soccer simulation league came in 3rd place.
The First RoboCup American Open took place April 30 - May 4, 2003, at Carnegie Mellon.
RoboCup-2003 was be held in Padua, Italy, July 1-12, 2003.
RoboCup-2002 was held in Fukuoka, Japan, June 17-26, 2002.
We entered two robot teams: our small-size robot team CMDragons'02, and our Sony legged robot team CMPack'02.
We won first place in the RoboCup-2002 Sony legged league! :-) We are now World Champions.
- Some pictures, and some more pictures.
I was General Chair for RoboCup-2001, held for the first time in the USA - Check the results!

(RoboCup-2001, Press conference, Photos taken by Mark J. Welch, Copyright, Robot-News.com. Click on a picture for a larger view.)

Some PAST:

I was on sabbatical leave for 2006/2007 as a Radcliffe Fellow at the
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.
I was the Program Chair for IJCAI-07, held January 6-12, 2007, in Hyderabad, India. It was a fantastic event! Thanks to all who participated.
The theme of the conference was "AI and its Benefits to Society."
The proceedings of the conference are available online at www.ijcai.org , where you can also find instructions on how to order a hard copy, if interested.
I was program co-chair of AAAI-05, held July 9-13, 2005, in Pittsburgh.
RoboCup'01, Seattle, USA, August 2-10, 2001.
IJCAI-99 Workshop: The Third International Workshop on RoboCup, Stockholm, July 31 - August 1, 1999.
RoboCup'98, La Villette, Paris, July 4-9, 1998.
AIPS-98, The Fourth International Conference on AI Planning Systems, June 7-10, 1998, Carnegie Mellon Univerity, Pittsburgh, USA.
NSF-CNPq sponsored workshop on "Intelligent Robotic Agents," Porto Alegre, Brazil, March 17-19, 1997.
ICML/COLT 1997 Tutorial on "Learning in Planning".
Immigration Course Fall 1996.

A special site:

Villa for rent in Algarve, Portugal.