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 Co-Director of the MIT Quest for Intelligence and the Bisplinghoff 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.