Dylan Hadfield-Menell

Wonderfest Science Envoy 2018

Dylan Hadfield-Menell is a fifth-year Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley, advised by Anca Dragan, Pieter Abbeel, and Stuart Russell. His research focuses on the value alignment problem in artificial intelligence. His goal is to design algorithms that learn about and pursue the intended goal of their users, designers, and society in general. Dylan’s recent work has focused on algorithms for human-robot interaction with unknown preferences and reliability engineering for learning systems.