Leslie Kaelbling
Panasonic Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, MIT
Organization
MIT
Position
Panasonic Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, MIT
Intelligence Briefing
Pioneering researcher in reinforcement learning and robot decision-making under uncertainty. Panasonic Professor at MIT, Director of Research at the MIT Quest for Intelligence, and PI at CSAIL. Won the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award (1997). AAAI Fellow (2000). Her lab developed PRoC3S for LLM-based robot action planning (2025) and algorithms for massively parallel robot motion planning (2025). Co-founded the Journal of Machine Learning Research.
AB, Philosophy — Stanford University
PhD, Computer Science — Stanford University
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Focuses on building reliable and predictable robot behavior. Emphasizes formal methods and principled approaches to decision-making in uncertain environments.
Focuses on building reliable and predictable robot behavior. Emphasizes formal methods and principled approaches to decision-making in uncertain environments.
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Dossier last updated: 2026-03-10