Kevin C. Gold

Kevin GoldKevin Gold
Lincoln Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cyber System Assessments Group
244 Wood Street
Lexington, MA 02420-9108
Voice: 781-981-7657
email: kevin.gold@ll.mit.edu


Dr. Kevin Gold is a technical staff member of the Cyber System Assessments Group at Lincoln Laboratory. Dr. Gold’s research focuses on creating and understanding goal-directed behavior and language in people and autonomous agents.  His thesis work was on how robots could learn the meanings of personal pronouns and other words from examples, integrating grounded semantics with logical semantics and machine learning.  A paper related to this work won Best Paper at the International Conference on Development and Learning in 2007.  Dr. Gold’s work has appeared in the journals Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and Autonomous Systems, as well as several artificial intelligence related conferences.

Dr. Gold received his A.B. from Harvard in 2001 and his Ph.D. from Yale in 2008.  He has taught at Wellesley College as Norma Wilentz Hess Visiting Professor, and as an Assistant Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology in the Interactive Games and Media Department.

 

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