Dylan Hadfield-Menell
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Dylan Hadfield-Menell is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, where he holds the Bonnie and Marty (1964) Tenenbaum Career Development Professorship and directs the Algorithmic Alignment Group at CSAIL. He received his PhD in EECS from UC Berkeley under advisors Anca Dragan, Pieter Abbeel, and Stuart Russell, and his M.Eng. from MIT. His research focuses on agent alignment — developing methods to ensure AI systems behave in accordance with the goals and values of their users and society — with particular attention to multi-agent systems, human-AI teams, and societal oversight of machine learning. He is known for foundational contributions including Cooperative Inverse Reinforcement Learning, the Off-Switch Game, and Inverse Reward Design, all of which have been influential in the AI safety and alignment research community. He was named an AI2050 Early Career Fellow by Schmidt Sciences in 2022 in recognition of his work on alignment challenges.
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- Mar 22, 2026, 3:44 PM UTC
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- Mar 20, 2026, 2:50 AM UTC