Biography

Deb Roy directs the Media Lab's Cognitive Machines group and Center for Future Banking, and chairs MIT's academic program in Media Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on the interaction of language with physical and social context, which he explores through the construction of robots, video games, and the study of child language acquisition. Roy has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers in the areas of artificial intelligence, cognitive modeling, human-machine interaction, data mining and visualization, and machine learning. He has served as guest editor for the journal Artificial Intelligence and is an associate of Behavioral and Brain Sciences. His work has been featured in mainstream media including NPR, BBC News, Wired, Science Magazine, New Scientist, Technology Review, PC Magazine, and Popular Science. Roy holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in computer engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and both an MS and PhD in media arts and sciences from MIT.