Scholar
Scott Niekum
Google Scholar ID: 4wXYfSUAAAAJ
Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Citations & Impact
Citations
5,792
H-index
40
i10-index
64
Publications
20
Co-authors
48
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Background
- Associate Professor at the College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Director of the Safe, Confident, and Aligned Learning + Robotics Lab (SCALAR)
- Core member of the interdepartmental UMass robotics group
- Amazon Scholar at Amazon Robotics
- Research goal: ensuring AI systems are well-aligned with human objectives and can be safely deployed in the real world
- Research areas include imitation learning, reinforcement learning, AI safety, and human factors; applications span large language models and robotics
