Tomás Lozano-Perez

Tomás Lozano-Perez is the School of Engineering Professor in Teaching Excellence at MIT, and an investigator at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He was previously associate director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and associate head for computer science in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His research has been in robotics (configuration-space approach to motion planning), computer vision (interpretation-tree approach to object recognition), machine learning (multiple-instance learning), medical imaging (computer-assisted surgery) and computational chemistry (drug activity prediction and protein structure determination from NMR and X-ray data). His current research is aimed at integrating task, motion and decision-theoretic planning for robotic manipulation.

Lozano-Perez is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Association for Computing Machinery, and Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He has received an IEEE Robotics Pioneer Award and a Presidential Young Investigator Award.

Selected Publications

• Luo, Z., Mao, J., Wu, J., Lozano-Perez, T., Tenenbaum, J., Kaelbling, L.P. (2023). Learning Rational Subgoals from Demonstrations and Instructions. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
• Chitnis, R., Silver, T., Lozano-Perez, T., Kaelbling, L.P. (2023). Overcoming the Pitfalls of Prediction Error in Operator Learning for Bilevel Planning. Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) Learning for Task and Motion Planning (LTAMP) workshop.
• Silver, T., Hariprasad, V., Shuttleworth, R., Kumar, N., Lozano-Perez, T., and Kaelbling, L.P. (2022). PDDL Planning With Pretrained Large Language Models. Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) FMDM workshop.

Media

• Apr. 28, 2020: MIT News, Automating the search for entirely new “curiosity” algorithms.
• Dec. 11, 2017: MIT News, Four from MIT named 2017 Association for Computing Machinery Fellows.
• Apr. 28, 2016: CSAIL News, NASA’s humanoid robot lands at CSAIL.
• Mar. 14, 2014: MIT News, Five professors named 2014 MacVicar Faculty Fellows.