RI Seminar
Yann LeCun
Director of AI Research at Facebook
Professor of Computer Science, New York University

The Next Frontier in AI: Unsupervised Learning

Event Location: McConomy Auditorium, CUCBio: Yann LeCun is Director of AI Research at Facebook, and Silver Professor of Data Science, Computer Science, Neural Science, and Electrical Engineering at New York University, affiliated with the NYU Center for Data Science, the Courant Institute of Mathematical Science, the Center for Neural Science, and the Electrical and Computer [...]

VASC Seminar
Larry Zitnick
Research Manager
Facebook AI Research

Reasoning About Our Visual World

Event Location: Newell Simon Hall 1507Bio: C. Lawrence Zitnick is a research manager at Facebook AI Research, and an affiliate associate professor at the University of Washington. He is interested in a broad range of topics related to artificial intelligence including object recognition, the relation of language and imagery, and methods for gathering common sense [...]

VASC Seminar
Julian Panetta
‎PhD Student
New York University

Fine-Scale Structure Design for 3D Printing

Event Location: Newell Simon Hall 1507Bio: Julian Panetta is a PhD candidate at NYU's Courant Institute, where he is advised by Denis Zorin. Julian is interested in simulation and optimal designproblems, specifically focusing on applications for 3D printing. Before joining NYU, he received his BS in computer science from Caltech and did research at NASA's [...]

VASC Seminar
Qixing Huang
Assistant Professor
University of Texas at Austin

Visual Correspondences in the Big Data Era

Event Location: Newell Simon Hall 1507Bio: Qixing Huang is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University and his MS and BSin Computer Science from Tsinghua University. He was a research assistant professor at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago before joining UT Austin. [...]

VASC Seminar
Jiajun Wu
Graduate Student
MIT

Computational Perception of Geometric and Physical Object Properties

Event Location: Newell Simon Hall 1507Bio: Jiajun Wu is a third-year Ph.D. student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, advised by Professor Bill Freeman and Professor Josh Tenenbaum. His research interests lie on the intersection of computer vision, machine learning, and computational cognitive science. Before coming to MIT, he received his B.Eng. from Tsinghua University, China, [...]

RI Seminar

Autonomous Intelligent Service Robots: Learning and Explanations in Human-Robot Interaction

1305 Newell Simon Hall

Manuela Veloso Herbert A Simon University Professor, Carnegie Mellon Abstract We research on autonomous mobile robots with a seamless integration of perception, cognition, and action. In this talk, I will first introduce our CoBot service robots and their novel localization and symbiotic autonomy, which enable them to consistently move in our buildings, now for more [...]