VASC Seminar
Nobuyuki Umetani
Research Scientist
Autodesk Research

Simulation-guided Interactive Exploration of Functional Design

Event Location: Newell Simon Hall 1507Bio: Nobuyuki Umetani is a research scientist at Autodesk Research. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher in Autodesk Research and Disney Research Zurich. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2012 from The University of Tokyo under supervision of Takeo Igarashi. He also spent one year in Columbia University and in [...]

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Ashish Kapoor
Senior Researcher
Microsoft Research, Redmond

Safe and Optimal Path Planning in Uncertain Skies

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Ashish Kapoor is a senior researcher at Microsoft Research, Redmond. Currently, his research focuses on Aerial Informatics and Robotics with an emphasis on building intelligent and autonomous flying agents that are safe and enable applications that can positively influence our society. The research builds upon cutting edge research in machine intelligence, [...]

VASC Seminar
Min Xu
Assistant Research Professor
Carnegie Mellon University

Molecular resolution structural pattern mining inside single cells

Event Location: Newell Simon Hall 1507Bio: Dr. Min Xu is an Assistant Research Professor of Computational Biology at the Computational Biology Department in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He received degrees in Computational Biology, Computer Science, and Applied Mathematics. He has more than 16 years of research experience in various Computational [...]

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Umamaheswar Duvvuri, MD
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Surgical Robotics- past, present and future

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Umamaheswar Duvvuri, MD, PhD, is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania obtaining his Medical Degree in 2000 and his PhD in Biophysics in 2002. He completed an internship in General Surgery in 2003 and residency training in Otolaryngology in 2007 at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He completed fellowship [...]

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Stefanie Tellex
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Brown University

Learning Models of Language, Action and Perception for Human-Robot Collaboration

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Stefanie Tellex is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Assistant Professor of Engineering at Brown University. Her group, the Humans To Robots Lab, creates robots that seamlessly collaborate with people to meet their needs using language, gesture, and probabilistic inference, aiming to empower every person with a collaborative robot. She [...]

VASC Seminar
Jovan Popovic
Senior Principal Scientist
Adobe Research

Character Animator

Bio: Jovan Popovic is a Senior Principal Scientist at Adobe Systems. After receiving bachelor's degrees in mathematics and computer science in 1995, he attended the University of Washington and Carnegie Mellon University, where he earned a doctoral degree for his work in computer animation and geometric modeling. He was on the faculty at the Massachusetts [...]

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Kostas Alexis
Assistant Professor
University of Nevada, Reno

Autonomous Exploration and Inspection using Aerial Robots

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Kostas Alexis obtained his Ph.D. in the field of aerial robotics control and collaboration from the University of Patras, Greece in 2011. His Ph.D. research was supported by the Greek national-European Commission Excellence scholarship. After successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis, he was a awarded a Swiss Government fellowship and moved to [...]

VASC Seminar
Tali Dekel
Research Scientist
Google Inc.

Exploring and Modifying Spatial Variations in a Single Image

Event Location: Gates Hillman 5222Bio: Tali Dekel is currently a Research Scientist at Google, working on developing computer vision and computer graphics algorithms. Before Google, she was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) at MIT, working with Prof. William T. Freeman. Tali completed her Ph.D studies at the school [...]