David Held

David Held is an Associate Professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he directs the Robots Perceiving and Doing (RPAD) Lab. His research focuses on robot learning for physical reasoning and manipulation, developing methods at the intersection of perception and planning that enable robots to handle novel, deformable, and perceptually challenging objects. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University and was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley prior to joining CMU.