Leslie P. Kaelbling
Leslie P. Kaelbling | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Known for | Partially observable Markov decision process Founder and first editor-in-chief of the Journal of Machine Learning Research |
| Awards | IJCAI Computers and Thought Award (1997) AAAI Fellow (2000) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Robotics Computer Science |
| Institutions | SRI International Brown University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Learning in Embedded Systems (1990) |
| Doctoral advisor | Nils J. Nilsson |
| Doctoral students | Michael L. Littman Leonid Peshkin Kristian Kersting |
| Website | people |
Leslie Pack Kaelbling is an American roboticist and the Panasonic Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is widely recognized for adapting partially observable Markov decision processes from operations research for application in artificial intelligence and robotics. Kaelbling received the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award in 1997 for applying reinforcement learning to embedded control systems and developing programming tools for robot navigation. In 2000, she was elected as a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.