Scott Niekum

Scott Niekum is an Associate Professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and director of the Safe, Confident, and Aligned Learning + Robotics Lab (SCALAR). His research aims to ensure that AI systems are well-aligned with human objectives and can be deployed safely in the real world, developing efficient learning algorithms that enforce safety constraints, provide performance guarantees, and infer and align human and agent objectives across settings from large language models to robotics.

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https://people.cs.umass.edu/~sniekum/

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University of Massachusetts Amherst

Associate Professor, College of Information and Computer Sciences

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