Stefanie Tellex Has Been Promoted To Full Professor
- Posted by Jesse Polhemus
- on June 6, 2025
Brown CS is happy to announce that pending the approval of Brown’s Corporation and effective as of July 1, 2025, faculty member Stefanie Tellex has been appointed to the rank of Full Professor.
Stefanie came to Brown in 2013 after completing her doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab. She conducted postdoctoral research at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), where she was the technical lead for the Interpretation of Spatial Language project, helping develop a language understanding system for robotic mobile manipulators. Her recent research includes “A survey of robotic language grounding: tradeoffs between symbols and embeddings”, published at IJCAI 2024, as well as “LTL-Transfer: Skill Transfer for Temporal Task Specification”, “Plug in the Safety Chip: Enforcing Constraints for LLM-driven Robot Agents”, and “CAPE: Corrective Actions from Precondition Errors Using Large Language Models”, all published at ICRA 2024. Her teaching includes CSCI 1410 Artificial Intelligence, CSCI 1951-R Introduction to Robotics, and CSCI 2951-K Topics in Collaborative Robotics.
Recognized early in her career with Best Student Paper Awards from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)’s Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) conference and the International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), Stefanie was also named to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Intelligent Systems list of AI’s 10 to Watch. Brown University has awarded her the Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research Award as well as an Early Career Research Achievement Award, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has presented her with their Young Faculty Award and a Director’s Fellowship. Stefanie is also the recipient of a NASA Early Career Faculty Award and the Robotics: Science and Systems Conference (RSS) Best Paper Award.
Most recently, she and her co-authors received the IROS RoboCup Best Paper Award and the Best Poster Award at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA)’s Language and Semantics of Task and Motion Planning workshop.
“All of this was made possible by my amazing students and postdocs,” Stefanie says. “They’re hardworking and brilliant and I couldn’t ask for better collaborators.”
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