Leslie_P._Kaelbling

Leslie P.
Kaelbling
Leslie Pack Kaelbling is an American roboticist and
the Panasonic Professor of Computer Science and Leslie P. Kaelbling
Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Nationality American
Technology.[1] She is widely recognized for adapting Alma mater Stanford University
partially observable Markov decision processes from Known for Partially observable Markov
operations research for application in artificial decision process
intelligence and robotics.[2][3][4] Kaelbling received the Founder and first editor-in-chief
IJCAI Computers and Thought Award in 1997 for of the Journal of Machine
applying reinforcement learning to embedded control Learning Research
systems and developing programming tools for robot
Awards IJCAI Computers and Thought
navigation.[5] In 2000, she was elected as a Fellow of
Award (1997)
the Association for the Advancement of Artificial
AAAI Fellow (2000)
Intelligence.[6]
Scientific career
Fields Robotics
Career Computer Science
Institutions SRI International
Kaelbling received an A. B. in Philosophy in 1983 and Brown University
a Ph. D. in Computer Science in 1990, both from Massachusetts Institute of
Stanford University.[7] During this time she was also Technology
affiliated with the Center for the Study of Language
Thesis Learning in Embedded Systems
and Information.[8] She then worked at SRI (http://search.proquest.com/doc
International and the affiliated robotics spin-off Teleos view/303871770/) (1990)
Research before joining the faculty at Brown
Doctoral Nils J. Nilsson
University. She left Brown in 1999 to join the faculty
advisor
at MIT.[9] Her research focuses on decision-making
under uncertainty, machine learning, and sensing with Doctoral Michael L. Littman
applications to robotics.[7] students Leonid Peshkin
Kristian Kersting
Website people.csail.mit.edu/lpk/ (http://p
Journal of Machine Learning eople.csail.mit.edu/lpk/)
Research
In the spring of 2000, she and two-thirds of the editorial board of the Kluwer-owned journal Machine
Learning resigned in protest to its pay-to-access archives with simultaneously limited financial
compensation for authors.[10] Kaelbling co-founded and served as the first editor-in-chief of the Journal
of Machine Learning Research, a peer-reviewed open access journal on the same topics which allows
researchers to publish articles for free and retain copyright with its archives freely available online.[11] In
response to the mass resignation, Kluwer changed their publishing policy to allow authors to self-archive
their papers online after peer-review. Kaelbling responded that this policy was reasonable and would have
made the creation of an alternative journal unnecessary, but the editorial board members had made it clear
they wanted such a policy and it was only after the threat of resignations and the actual founding of JMLR
that the publishing policy finally changed.[12]
Selected works
Reinforcement Learning: A Survey (https://web.archive.org/web/20180128021500/http://ww
w.jair.org/media/301/live-301-1562-jair.pdf) (LP Kaelbling, ML Littman, AW Moore). Journal
of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) 4 (1996) 237-285. A highly cited survey on the field
of reinforcement learning.
Planning and acting in partially observable stochastic domains (LP Kaelbling, ML Littman,
AR Cassandra). Artificial Intelligence 101 (1), 99-134.
Acting under uncertainty: Discrete Bayesian models for mobile-robot navigation (AR
Cassandra, LP Kaelbling, JA Kurien). Intelligent Robots and Systems (2) 963-972.
The synthesis of digital machines with provable epistemic properties (SJ Rosenschein, LP
Kaelbling). Proceedings of the 1986 Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning about
Knowledge, 83-98.
Practical reinforcement learning in continuous spaces (WD Smart, LP Kaelbling). 2000
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 903-910.
Hierarchical task and motion planning in the now (LP Kaelbling, T Lozano-Pérez). 2011
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 1470-1477.
References
1. "Keynote Plenary - Leslie Pack Kaelbling" (https://web.archive.org/web/20230208134217/htt
ps://www.icra2016.org/conference/keynotes-plenaries/leslie-pack-kaelbling/). 2016 IEEE
International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 10 March 2016. Archived from the
original (https://www.icra2016.org/conference/keynotes-plenaries/leslie-pack-kaelbling/) on 8
February 2023. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
2. Littman, Michael. "POMDP information page" (https://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~mlittman/topics/p
omdp-page.html). Rutgers University. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
3. TOMAS LOZANO-PEREZ: An Interview Conducted by Selma Šabanovic with Matthew R.
Francisco, IEEE History Center, 28 August 2011. Interview #733 for Indiana University and
IEEE History Center, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
4. "POMDPS in robotics" (http://robotics.itee.uq.edu.au/~PomdpInRobotics/doku.php/schedul
e?id=page). University of Queensland. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
5. Sakama, Chiaki. "15th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence" (http://www.c
s.ucy.ac.cy/compulog/newpage17.htm). Retrieved 12 August 2017.
6. AAAI Fellows (http://www.aaai.org/Awards/fellows-list.php), retrieved 2010-01-25.
7. "Leslie Kaelbling" (https://www.csail.mit.edu/user/808). MIT Computer Science and Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
8. Kaelbling, Leslie Pack (1987). "Learning as an Increase in Knowledge". Technical Report,
Center for the Study of Language and Information.
9. "Brown AI: People" (https://cs.brown.edu/research/ai/people.html). Department of Computer
Science. Brown University. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
10. Shieber, Stuart (6 March 2012). "An efficient journal" (https://blogs.harvard.edu/pamphlet/20
12/03/06/an-efficient-journal/). The Occasional Pamphlet. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
11. JMLR editorial board (http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/editorial-board.html), retrieved 2010-01-25.
12. Robin, Peek (1 December 2001). "Machine Learning's Editorial Board Divided" (https://www.
questia.com/magazine/1P3-95801675/machine-learning-s-editorial-board-divided).
Information Today. 18 (11).
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