Nicholas Roy

Nicholas Roy is a Canadian-American computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1][2] He is Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT and a principal investigator at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His research focuses on robotics, machine learning, autonomous systems, planning and reasoning, human-computer interaction and micro air vehicles and also principles of autonomy and decision-making. He received his PhD under Sebastian Thrun and Tom Mitchell at Carnegie Mellon University in 2003.[3]