Scott Niekum
Scholar

Scott Niekum

Google Scholar ID: 4wXYfSUAAAAJ
Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Imitation LearningReinforcement LearningAI SafetyRobotics
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
5,792
 
H-index
40
 
i10-index
64
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
48
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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