Tomás Lozano-Pérez

Tomás Lozano-Pérez is the School of Engineering Professor in Teaching Excellence at MIT and a principal investigator at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He is best known for his foundational contributions to robot motion planning, including introducing the configuration-space approach in 1977, and currently co-leads the Learning and Intelligent Systems group at CSAIL with Leslie Kaelbling, focusing on integrating task, motion, and decision-theoretic planning for robotic manipulation. He is a Fellow of the AAAI, ACM, and IEEE, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.