Silviu Pitis
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
I am an incoming 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.
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.
See my research page, recent research statement, or Google Scholar.