Nicholas Roy
Synopsis
Nicholas Roy is interested in artificial intelligence, machine learning, human-computer interaction, and robots that move on land and by air, with a focus on handling the uncertainty that comes from sensing and acting in the dynamic, unstructured, and populated world around us.
Biography
Nicholas Roy is Director of MIT Quest Systems Engineering and a Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. He is also a principal investigator at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Roy works on artificial intelligence, machine learning, human-computer interaction, and robots that move on land and by air, with a focus on handling the uncertainty that comes from sensing and acting in the dynamic, unstructured, and populated world around us. He founded and led Project Wing, a prototype drone-delivery system developed by Google’s parent company Alphabet. Roy earned a BS in physics and cognitive science from McGill University and a PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University.