Daniela Rus
Daniela Rus | |
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| Born | Cluj-Napoca, Romania |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | University of Iowa (BS) Cornell University (MS, PhD) |
| Awards | IEEE Edison Medal (2025) NAS member (2024) AAAS member (2017) NAE member (2015) MacArthur fellow (2002) IEEE fellow (2009) AAAI fellow (2009) ACM Fellow (2015) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Robotics; AI; Computer Science |
| Institutions | Dartmouth College; Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Fine motion planning for dexterous manipulation (1992) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Hopcroft |
| Doctoral students | Cynthia Sung |
Daniela L. Rus she is a Romanian-American computer scientist. She serves as director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), and the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of the books Computing the Future, The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots, and The Mind's Mirror: Risk and Reward in the Age of AI.