Dylan Hadfield-Menell

Dylan Hadfield-Menell is an Associate Professor of EECS at MIT. He runs the Algorithmic Alignment Group in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Hadfield-Menell received his PhD in Computer Science from UC-Berkeley, and his MS and BS (both in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering) from MIT. His research develops methods to ensure that AI systems behavior aligns with the goals and values of their human users and society as a whole, a concept known as ‘AI alignment’. His group works to address alignment challenges in multi-agent systems, human-AI teams, and societal oversight of machine learning. Their stated goal is to enable the safe, beneficial, and trustworthy deployment of AI in real-world settings. Hadfield-Menell is an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Recipient and a Berkeley Fellow, with multiple conference papers published in the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society and the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, among others. He was the technical lead on The Future Starts Here Exhibit for the Victoria and Albert Museum, and has interned at Facebook and Microsoft.