K&L Gates Distinguished Lecture in Ethics and Computational Technologies
Keynote Speaker
Manuela Veloso (SCS 1989, 1992)
Herbert A. Simon University Professor Emerita, Carnegie Mellon University
After growing up in Lisbon, Portugal, where she studied Electrical Engineering, Manuela Veloso came to CMU in 1986 eager to learn artificial intelligence from the founders and leaders of the field at CMU. She truly enjoyed her graduate student times, and she finished her Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1992 with a thesis in AI on Planning by Analogy, advised by the great late Jaime Carbonell. Manuela joined the faculty in the Computer Science Department, where she enthusiastically has carried visionary research in AI for close to three decades.
She founded the CORAL laboratory to research AI agents that collaborate, observe, reason, act and learn. The lab became the home to many generations of AI students, in particular contributing the CoBot autonomous mobile service robots, who have autonomously navigated our buildings for more than 1,000kms since 2009, and teams of soccer robots, who have been participants and often champions of RoboCup since 1997. Her technical contributions are captured in hundreds of publications with her students and multiple recognitions. Manuela has taught and mentored her students to carry ambitious AI research to aim high at advancing science, engineering and social impact. She is proud to have graduated 43 Ph.D. students, who are now leaders in academia and top technology companies. Manuela is the Herbert A. Simon University Professor in the School of Computer Science, and past Head of the Machine Learning Department.
She is a Fellow of all four major associations in her research areas – AAAS, AAAI, ACM, and IEEE. In July 2018, she accepted an intriguing and challenging opportunity to create J. P. Morgan Chase AI Research. She joined as Managing Director and has since grown a team of nearly 40 Master and Ph.D. level AI researchers. The team pursues aspirational goals to bring AI to complex multiagent economic systems, eradication of financial crime, safe effective data sharing, and responsible optimal interactions with stakeholders. She leads the team building upon her formidable CMU experience. Manuela always carries and presents her research with great passion, inspiring many – including underrepresented groups – to follow their dreams in technology. Manuela has a large, wonderful supportive family with her husband of many years, her children and grandchildren, her parents, siblings, nephews, aunts and uncle. The best times of the year are her family gatherings, most especially in Portugal.
2023 Speakers
Edith Abeyta
Artist
Mike Doyle
Former United States Congressman and Government Affairs Counselor in the Public Policy and Law practice, K&L Gates
Bonnie Fan
Community Researcher
Rayid Ghani
Conference Co-Chair
Distinguished Career Professor in the Machine Learning Department and the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
Hoda Heidari
Assistant Professor, Machine Learning Department and Human Computer Interaction, Carnegie Mellon University
Audrey Kurth Cronin
Director; Trustees Professor of Security and Technology, Carnegie Mellon Institute for Security and Technology
Illah Nourbakhsh
Conference Co-Chair
Illah Nourbakhsh, Professor of Robotics, Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science; Director, Center for Shared Prosperity and CREATE Lab
Yoel Sadovsky
Executive Director, Magee-Womens Research Institute, Elsie Hilliard Hillman Chair of Women’s Health Research, Distinguished Professor of OB-GYN, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Vice Chair (research), Department of OB-GYN and Reproductive Sciences, Associate Dean, Women's Health Research and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
Reva Schwartz
Research Scientist/Principal Investigator for AI Bias at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
LaTrenda Sherrill
Lead Consultant and Founder, Common Cause Consultants
Michael Skirpan
Assistant Teaching Faculty, Software and Societal Systems and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University; Executive Director, Community Forge
Yanshan Wang
Vice Chair of Research and Assistant Professor within the Department of Health Information Management, University of Pittsburgh
Scott Wolovich
Executive Director, New Sun Rising
The K&L Gates Presidential Fellows
Maria Arciniegas-Gomez
Doctoral Student
Logic, Computation and Methodology, Dietrich College
Carnegie Mellon University
Lingwei Cheng
Doctoral Student
Public Policy and Management, Heinz College
Carnegie Mellon University
Amanda Coston
Doctoral Student
Machine Learning and Public Policy, Heinz College
Carnegie Mellon University
Sanghamitra Dutta
Doctoral Student
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Anna Kawakami
Doctoral Student
Human Computer Interaction, School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Sara Mahdizadeh Shahri
Doctoral Student
Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Zeyu Tang
Doctoral Student
Logic, Computation and Methodology, Dietrich College
Carnegie Mellon University
