Nicholas Roy is a Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT. He received his Ph. D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2003. His research interests include unmanned aerial vehicles, autonomous systems, human-computer interaction, decision-making under uncertainty and machine learning. The goal of his research program is to build autonomous robots that operate effectively in the real world. His approach to building these robots is to develop algorithms and representations that tightly couple the perception and decision-making processes needed for autonomy; these representations and algorithms allow robots to make decisions that are robust to ambiguity, react quickly as the world changes, and actively learn about the world.