Leslie P. Kaelbling | |
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Stanford University |
Known for | Partially observable Markov decision process Founder and first editor-in-chief of the Journal of Machine Learning Research |
Awards | IJCAI Computers and Thought Award (1997) AAAI Fellow (2000) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Robotics Computer Science |
Institutions | SRI International Brown University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Thesis | Learning in Embedded Systems (1990) |
Doctoral advisor | Nils J. Nilsson |
Doctoral students | Michael L. Littman Leonid Peshkin Kristian Kersting |
Website | people |
Leslie Pack Kaelbling is an American roboticist and the Panasonic Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1] She is widely recognized for adapting partially observable Markov decision processes from operations research for application in artificial intelligence and robotics.[2][3][4] Kaelbling received the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award in 1997 for applying reinforcement learning to embedded control systems and developing programming tools for robot navigation.[5] In 2000, she was elected as a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.[6]