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: Wean Hall 7123

Short vitae

The RoboCup USOpen 2008 took place in Pittsburgh, May 24-27, 2008 at the Carnegie Science Center! The complete schedule is available, as well as the schedule by event. Next is the International RoboCup'08 in China, July 14-20, 2008.

TEACHING:

Fall 2008 - 15-491, CMRoboBits - How to create intelligent robots
Fall 2008 - 15-887/16-830, Planning, Execution, and Learning, co-taught with Reid Simmons.

RESEARCH:

CORAL - overarching research on intelligent robots that Cooperate, Observe, Reason, Act, and Learn. (The CORAL Web site has sorted publications and multimedia data.)
Robot Soccer: AIBOs, Segways RMPs, small-size robots, and past efforts; Multiagent Collaborative and Adversarial Planning, Execution, and Learning.
CMRadar - Calendar Management for Personal Assistants
Planning, multi-robot planning, planning and learning, planning under uncertainty
"Pick-up" robot teams - Teams of heterogenous robots and humans.
Human-robot interaction - Robot learning from human demonstration.
Activity recognition - Learning from sequential data.
Model learning from negotiation in multiagent systems.
SPIRAL Project -- Automated Libraries of Signal Processing Algorithms

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
This list is automatically constructed 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.

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, which I strongly endorse.

CURRENT PhD STUDENTS:

Sonia Chernova
Elisabeth Crawford
Colin McMillen
Brenna Argall (jointly advised with Brett Browning)
Sarah Aboutalib
Nicholas Armstrong-Crews (jointly advised with Geoff Gordon)
Stefan Zickler
Stephanie L. Rosenthal (jointly advised with Anind Dey)

ROBOT SOCCER:

See our CORAL/Robot Soccer page for research and news.
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.)

Past Advised Students:

Yang Gu - Ph.D. CS, August 2008
Douglas Vail - Ph.D. CS, May 2008, Google, Pittsburgh
Elly Winner - Ph.D. CS, May 2008
Maayan Roth (jointly advised with Reid Simmons) - Ph.D. Robotics, September 2007, Google, Israel.
Juan Fasola - MSc. CS, August 2007, PhD student at USC.
James Bruce - Ph.D. CS, December 2006, at Google, Inc.
Kristina Rohlin (jointly advised with Brett Browning), M.Sc. Robotics, May 2007, in the U.S. Navy.
Scott Lenser - Ph.D. CS, August 2005, at iRobot, MA.
Patrick Riley - Ph.D. CS, March 2005, at Google, Inc.
Dinesh Govindaraju, M.Sc. Robotics, 2006, Singapore.
John Gavin, M.Sc. CS, 2005, at Microsoft Research.
Jeremy Searock, (jointly 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, Assistant Professor at IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Michael Bowling - Ph.D. CS, May 2003, Assistant Professor at University of Alberta, Canada.
Paul Carpenter - M.Sc. CS, 2003, at the ICT, LA.
William Uther - Ph.D. CS, August 2002, Researcher, National ICT, Sydney, Australia.
Belinda Thom - Ph.D. CS, December 2001, Assistant Professor at Harvey Mudd College, CA.
Bryan Singer - Ph.D. CS, December 2001, NSA, Washington, DC.
Peter Stone - Ph.D. CS, December 1998, Assistant Professor at University of Texas, Austin.
AstroTeller - Ph.D. CS, December 1998, CEO and founder of BodyMedia, Inc., Pittsburgh.
Kwun Han - 1998, Gigapixel, Inc., Palo Alto, CA.
Karen Haigh - Ph.D. CS, May 1998, Honeywell, Minneapolis.
Yury Smirnov - Ph.D. CS, August 1997, CEO and founder of Akonite, Inc., CA.

Teaching - Recent past semesters:

15-381, Introduction to AI
Fall 2007 - 15-491, CMRoboBits - How to create intelligent robots
Fall 2005 - 15-887/16-830, Planning, Execution, and Learning, co-taught with Reid Simmons. Lectures: Mon 1:30 - 2:50pm (NSH 3002).
Fall 2005 - 15-491, CMRoboBits: Creating an Intelligent AIBO Robot, co-taught with Paul Rybski. Lectures: Mon 11:30 - 1:20PM (DH 1211), Labs: Wed 12:30 - 1:20PM (NSH 3206 - REL).
Spring 2004 - 15-887/16-830, Planning, Execution, and Learning, MW 1:30pm-2:50pm, NSH 3001.
15-491, CMRoboBits: Creating an Intelligent AIBO Robot, Fall 2003
15-780/16-731, Advanced AI, Spring 2003
15-887*/16-830, Planning, Execution and Learning, Fall 2002
15-381, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Fall 2001
15-887, Planning, Execution and Learning, Fall 2001
15-889A, Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Hands-On Experience, Spring 2001.
15-381, Artificial Intelligence, Fall 2000.
15-889, Planning, Execution, and Learning, Spring 99.
15-381, Artificial Intelligence, Fall 98.
15-780, AI core course, Spring 98.
15-889, Planning and Learning, Fall 97.
15-381, Artificial Intelligence, Spring 97.

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.