Faculty Candidate
Berk Calli
PostDoctoral Associate
GRAB Lab , Yale University

Faculty Candidate Talk: Closing the Loop with Vision Feedback and Compliance in Robotic Manipulation

Gates 6115

Areas of Interest: Grasping and Manipulation   Abstract Robotic manipulation is a key functional requirement that is largely missing from the current state of the art regarding robots in unstructured environments. While models of manipulation phenomenon give us invaluable insights on various principles, many parameters (e.g. surface geometry, friction coefficients, contact locations) are difficult to [...]

Faculty Candidate
Changliu Liu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University

Faculty Candidate Talk: Designing Robot Behavior in Human-Robot Interactions

Newell-Simon Hall 3305

Areas of Interest: Industrial Collaborative Robot, Autonomous Driving, Non-Convex Optimization, Distributed Conflict Resolution   Abstract Human-robot interactions (HRI) have been recognized to be a key element of future robots in many application domains such as manufacturing, transportation, service and entertainment, which entail huge social and economic impacts. Technically, it is challenging to design the behavior [...]

Faculty Candidate
Wenzhen Yuan
PhD candidate
Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT

Faculty Candidate Talk: Making sense of the physical world with high-resolution tactile sensing

Gates 6115

Areas of Interest: Robotic Tactile Sensing, Robotic Perception   Abstract: With the rapid progress in robotics, people expect robots to be able to accomplish a wide variety of tasks in the real world, such as working in factories, performing household chores, and caring for elderly. However, it is still very difficult for robots to act [...]

Faculty Candidate
Zeynep Temel
Postdoctoral Research Associate
SEAS & Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University

Faculty Candidate Talk: Extreme Motions in Natural and Synthetic Systems

GHC 8102

Areas of Interest: Extreme motions of small-scale natural and synthetic systems   Abstract: Small organisms can achieve extraordinary accelerations, speeds, and forces repeatedly throughout their lifespan with minimal costs. For example, bacteria can effectively swim in low Reynolds number environments, rotating their flagella at 100 Hz; mantis shrimp break clam shells with a single strike, [...]

Faculty Candidate
Naomi Fitter
Postdoctoral Scholar,
USC

Faculty Candidate Talk: Design and Evaluation of Everyday Interactive Robots

Gates 6115

Areas of Interest: Human-Computer Interaction and Robotics Host: Aaron Steinfeld Admin Contact: Peggy Martin pm1e@andrew.cmu.edu   As robots appear in more everyday environments, they will have new opportunities to enhance the lives of the people around them. Despite this potential gain, modern robots lack many of the necessary skills to effectively interact with people. In particular, almost all [...]

Faculty Candidate
David Braun
Assistant Professor (PI)
Dynamics & Control Laboratory, Singapore University of Technology and Design

Faculty Candidate: David Braun

GHC 6115

Areas of interest: Robotics, Optimal Control, System Dynamics, Impedance Control, Variable Impedance Actuators Host: Hartmut Geyer Admin Contact: Keyla Cook keylac@andrew.cmu.edu

Faculty Candidate
Ling-Qi Yan
PhD candidate
EECS, UC Berkeley

Faculty Candidate: Ling-Qi Yan

GHC 6115

Areas of Interest: Physically-based rendering, appearance modeling, molumetric scattering, light transport algorithms, sampling & reconstruction theory Host: Srinivasa Narasimhan Admin Contact: Nora Kazour nkazour@andrew.cmu.edu

Faculty Candidate
Pulkit Agrawal
PhD candidate
Computer Science, UC Berkeley

Faculty Candidate: Computational Sensorimotor Learning

NSH 3305

Areas of Interest: Artificial Intelligence Host: Abhinav Gupta Admin Contact: Chris Downey cdowney@andrew.cmu.edu     Abstract: An open question in artificial intelligence is how to endow agents with common sense knowledge that humans naturally seem to possess. A prominent theory in child development posits that human infants gradually acquire such knowledge by the process of experimentation. [...]

Faculty Candidate
Alessandro Roncone
Postdoctoral Scholar
Social Robotics Lab, Yale University

Faculty Candidate: Designing interactive algorithms for human-robot collaboration

NSH 3305

Areas of Interest: Robot control, human-robot interaction, artificial intelligence Abstract:   We are on the cusp of a fundamental revolution in how robotics at large will be consumed by and assimilated into our everyday life. In the next decade, state of the art robot platforms will become easier to deploy, more accessible to purchase, and [...]

Faculty Candidate
Judy Hoffman
Computer Science Postdoctoral Researcher
UC Berkeley

Faculty Candidate Talk: Adaptive Adversarial Learning for a Diverse Visual World

Newell-Simon Hall 3305

Areas of Interest: Computer vision and machine learning Abstract Automated visual recognition is in increasingly high demand. However, despite tremendous performance improvement in recent years, state-of-the-art deep visual models learned using large-scale benchmark datasets still fail to generalize to the diverse visual world. In this talk I will discuss a general purpose semi-supervised learning algorithm, [...]