Silviu Pitis
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
I am an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. My research interests revolve around the normative design of general-purpose artificial agency: the design and specification of goals, rewards, and abstractions for intelligent agents, including reinforcement learning and language model agents. See my research page.
Previously, I was a CIFAR AI Safety Postdoctoral Fellow at the Vector Institute, where I worked with Sheila McIlraith. I received my PhD in computer science from the University of Toronto, advised by Jimmy Ba. I also hold an MS in CS from Georgia Tech and a JD from Harvard Law School.
Prospective students. I am not recruiting PhD students this cycle. University of Michigan master’s and undergraduate students, please see the Group section of my research page.