Nicholas Roy

{{Short description|Canadian-American aerospace engineer}}

Nicholas Roy is a Canadian-American computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.{{Cite web |url=http://aeroastro.mit.edu/faculty-research/faculty-list/nicholas-roy |title=Nicholas Roy |publisher=mit.edu |accessdate=May 13, 2017}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.csail.mit.edu/user/902 |title=Nicholas Roy |publisher= |accessdate=May 13, 2017}} He is Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT and a principal investigator at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where he leads the Robust Robotics Group.{{cite web |title=Nick Roy |url=https://www.mmi.mit.edu/people/nick-roy |website=MIT Mobility Initiative |access-date=23 March 2024}}

His research focuses on robotics, machine learning, autonomous systems, planning and reasoning, human-computer interaction and micro air vehicles and also principles of autonomy and decision-making. Alums from his group have gone on to work for and launch major companies that include Zoox and Skydio.

Roy received his PhD under Sebastian Thrun and Tom Mitchell at Carnegie Mellon University in 2003.{{cite web |title=Nicholas Roy |url=https://www.mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=101772 |website=The Mathematics Genealogy Project |access-date=31 October 2022}}