Mission: To make it easier for people to get computers to help them carry out procedural tasks.
Associate Provost for Artificial Intelligence, Brown University (2025-)
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
Division Director, Information and Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation (2022-2025)
Program co-chair for Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (2019) with Cate Hartley.
Communications 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.
Some notes for students.
Here is a list of the PhD dissertations (theses) I have advised.
Francisco Piedrahita
Max Zhu
Jessica Forde
Chace Hayhurst
Henry Sowerby
Zhiyuan Zhou
Dilip Arumugam
Will Brackenbury
Matt Cooper
David Hershkowitz
Zach Horvitz
Khimya Khetarpal
Max Kleiman-Weiner
Erwan Lecarpentier
Robert Loftin
Zoe Papakipos
Bei Peng
Nate Umbanhowar
Valerie Zhao
Carl Trimbach
Kavosh Asadi
Guan "Royal" Wang
John Asmuth
Sergiu Goschin
David LeRoux*
Christopher R. Mansley*
Alexander L. Strehl
Ari Weinstein
Michael Wunder
Fancong Zeng
Fan Jiang
Noam Shazeer*
Jiefu Shi
US9620117B1, "Learning from interactions for a spoken dialog system'' (with Mazin Gilbert, Esther Levin, Robert E. Schapire), 2017.
US5301109A, "Computerized cross-language document retrieval using latent semantic indexing'' (with Thomas K. Landauer), 1994.