Reid Simmons

Reid Simmons is a Research Professor at the Robotics Institute, part of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. His work focuses on creating reliable, highly autonomous systems that operate in uncertain environments, particularly mobile robots. He leads the Reliable Autonomous Systems Lab and serves as Director of the Artificial Intelligence Major at CMU.

• Research Interests: Autonomy, AI reasoning, human-robot interaction, multi-robot coordination, probabilistic planning
• Projects: SUCCESS (proficiency metrics), Social Robot (personality-driven interaction), Data Analysts (AI for data science)
• Recent Publications: 15 articles (2017-2023) on topics like human-robot teaming, machine teaching, and affective computing

His research emphasizes model-based reasoning, error recovery, and socially acceptable robot behavior, including projects like the Tank and Victor robots for interactive tasks. Students and affiliates span PhD/Master's programs, with past advisees now leading in robotics (e.g., Heather Knight, Christopher Urmson).