RI Seminar
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 [...]

RI Seminar
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 [...]

RI Seminar
Ibrahim Volkan Isler
Associate Professor
University of Minnesota

Robotic Data Gathering in the Wild

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Volkan Isler is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Minnesota. He is a 2009-2012 resident fellow at the Institute on Environment and 2010-2012 McKnight Land-Grant Professor. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a post-doctoral researcher at CITRIS at UC Berkeley. [...]

RI Seminar
Byron Boots
Assistant Professor
Georgia Tech

Machine Learning For Modeling Real-World Dynamical Systems

Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: Byron Boots is an Assistant Professor in the School of Interactive Computing and the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. He directs the Georgia Tech Robot Learning Lab, which is affiliated with the Center for Machine Learning, the Institute for Data Engineering and Science, and the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent [...]