Nicholas Roy

Biography

Nicholas Roy is the Bisplinghoff Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his B.Sc. in Physics and Cognitive Science in 1995 and his M.Sc. in Computer Science in 1997, both from McGill University. He received his Ph. D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2003. He has made research contributions to planning under uncertainty, machine learning, human-computer interaction, and aerial robotics. He founded and led Project Wing at Google [X] from 2012-2014. He is currently the director of the Bridge, in MIT's Quest for Intelligence, focused on the science and engineering of intelligence and applying new advances in artificial intelligence broadly to all engineering and science disciplines.