Manuela M. Veloso joined J.P.Morgan as Managing Director to create and head the Artificial Intelligence Research Lab. With her group, she investigates opportunities for automated, optimized, and novel approaches to AI in Finance. Veloso is on leave from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) as Herbert A. Simon University Professor in the School of Computer Science, and where she was the Head of the Machine Learning Department. She researches in AI, Robotics, and Machine Learning. At CMU, she founded and directs the CORAL research laboratory, for the study of autonomous agents that Collaborate, Observe, Reason, Act, and Learn. Veloso and her students research a variety of autonomous robots, including mobile service robots and soccer robots. Veloso is Fellow of the AAAI, AAAS, ACM, and IEEE. She is Einstein Chair Professor of the Chinese National Academy of Science, the co-founder and past President of RoboCup, and past President of AAAI. As of now, Professor Veloso has graduated 40 PhD students and co-authored more than 300 journal and conference publications.