Dylan Hadfield-Menell

Dylan Hadfield-Menell is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at MIT, where he runs the Algorithmic Alignment Group in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

His research focuses on AI alignment: developing methods to ensure AI systems act in accordance with the goals and values of their users and of society at large. His group’s work spans interpreting and evaluating the internals of modern AI systems, learning robustly from human feedback, and designing the multi-agent and societal structures needed to oversee them. Their goal is to enable safe, beneficial, and trustworthy deployment of AI in real-world settings.