Research

Division Director, Information and Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation (2022-)

University Professor of Computer Science, Brown University (2012-)

• Co-director of the Humanity-Centered Robotics Initiative (2013-) with Betram Malle.

• Associate Department Chair (2018-2019)

• Founding member of BigAI (Brown Integrative General Artificial Intelligence)

Leadership Roles

• Program co-chair for Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (2019) with Cate Hartley.

• Communicataions co-chair for Neural Information Processing Systems (2019) with Katherine Gorman.

• Program co-chair of Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (2013) with Marie desJardins.

• General chair of International Conference on Machine Learning (2013).

• Department Chair, Rutgers University Department of Computer Science (2009-2012).

• Programme co-chair of International Conference on Machine Learning (2009) with Leon Boutou.

Current PhD Students

Jessica Forde

Other Recent Student Collaborators

Chace Hayhurst

Henry Sowerby

Zhiyuan Zhou

Cam Allen

Dilip Arumugam

Jacob Beck

Will Brackenbury

Evan Cater

Matt Cooper

David Hershkowitz

Zach Horvitz

Khimya Khetarpal

Seungchan Kim

Max Kleiman-Weiner

Erwan Lecarpentier

Robert Loftin

Zoe Papakipos

Bei Peng

Nate Umbanhowar

Valerie Zhao

Former PhD Students (Brown)

Jun Ki Li

Carl Trimbach

Lucas Lehnert

(S)am Saarinen

Kavosh Asadi

Guan "Royal" Wang

David Abel

Stephen Brawner

Mark Ho*

Former PhD Students (Rutgers)

John Asmuth

Monica Babes-Vroman

Erick Chastain*

Carlos Diuk

Sergiu Goschin

Bethany R. Leffler

David LeRoux*

Lihong Li

Christopher R. Mansley*

Vukosi N. Marivate

Ali Nouri

Brian Russell

Alexander L. Strehl

Thomas J. Walsh

Ari Weinstein

Michael Wunder

Fancong Zeng

Former PhD Students (Duke)

Fan Jiang

Greg A. Keim*

Michail G. Lagoudakis*

Stephen M. Majercik

Noam Shazeer*

Jiefu Shi