Manuela M. Veloso is the Head of J.P. Morgan AI Research, which
pursues fundamental research in areas of core relevance to financial
services, including data mining and cryptography, machine learning,
explainability, and human-AI interaction. J.P. Morgan AI Research
partners with applied data analytics teams across the firm as well as with
leading academic institutions globally. Professor Veloso is on leave from
Carnegie Mellon University as the Herbert A. Simon University Professor

in the School of Computer Science, and the past Head of the Machine
Learning Department. With her students, she had led research in AI,
with a focus on robotics and machine learning, having concretely
researched and developed a variety of autonomous robots, including
teams of soccer robots, and mobile service robots. Her robot soccer
teams have been RoboCup world champions several times, and the
CoBot mobile robots have autonomously navigated for more than
1,000km in university buildings. Professor Veloso is the Past President
of AAAI, (the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence),
and the co-founder, Trustee, and Past President of RoboCup. Professor
Veloso has been recognized with a multiple honors, including being a
Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, AAAS, and AAAI. She is the recipient of
several best paper awards, the Einstein Chair of the Chinese Academy
of Science, the ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award, an
NSF Career Award, and the Allen Newell Medal for Excellence in
Research. Professor Veloso earned a Bachelor and Master of Science
degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior
Tecnico in Lisbon, Portugal, a Master of Arts in Computer Science from
Boston University, and Master of Science and PhD in Computer Science
from Carnegie Mellon University. See
www.cs.cmu.edu/~mmv/Veloso.html for her scientific publications.