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David Held

Associate Professor

Robotics Institute

  • Associate Professor
    Robotics Institute
  • 213 Elliot Dunlap Smith Hall, Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

BIO

David Held is an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the Robotics Institute and is the director of the RPAD lab: Robots Perceiving And Doing. His research focuses on perceptual robot learning, i.e. developing new methods at the intersection of robot perception and planning for robots to learn to interact with novel, perceptually challenging, and deformable objects. David has applied these ideas to robot manipulation and autonomous driving. Prior to coming to CMU, David was a post-doctoral researcher at U.C. Berkeley, and he completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Stanford University. David also has a B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at MIT. David is a recipient of the Google Faculty Research Award in 2017 and the NSF CAREER Award in 2021.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Assistant Professor
    Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute, Pittsburgh, United States2017 - present

DEGREES

  • Ph.D., Computer Science
    Stanford University, Computer Science, Stanford, CA, United States2012 - 2016
  • M.S., Computer Science
    Stanford University, Computer Science, Stanford, CA, United States2010 - 2012
  • M.S., Mechanical Engineering
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States2006 - 2007
  • B.S., Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Controls Engineering
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering, Cambridge, CA, United States2001 - 2005

CAMPUS

  • Pittsburgh

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

  • 3 Good Health and Well Being
  • 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities