RI Seminar
Gita Reese Sukthankar
Associate Professor
University of Central Florida

Data-driven Social Informatics

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dr. Gita Sukthankar is an Associate Professor and Charles N. Millican Faculty Fellow in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida, and an affiliate faculty member at UCF’s Institute for Simulation and Training. She received her Ph.D. from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon and an A.B. [...]

VASC Seminar
Yu Xiang
Postdoctral Researcher
Stanford University

3D Object Representations for Recognition

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Yu Xiang is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. His research focuses on understanding objects and scenes from images and videos, with emphasis on recognizing both semantic and 3D geometric properties of objects and scenes. His current work attempts to develop 3D object representation and recognition [...]

RI Seminar
Jonathan Hurst
College of Engineering Deans Professor
Oregon State University

Designing Robots to Walk and Run

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Jonathan W. Hurst is the College of Engineering Dean's Professor of Robotics in the School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering at Oregon State University, and the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Agility Robotics. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, and both an M.S. and Ph.D. in Robotics, all [...]

VASC Seminar
Changxi Zheng
Assistant Professor
Columbia University

Computational Acoustic Design: From the Virtual to the Real

Event Location: Newell Simon Hall 1507Bio: Changxi Zheng is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. Prior to joining Columbia, he received his M.S. and Ph.D. from Cornell University, and his B.S. from Shanghai Jiaotong University. His research spans computer graphics, physically-based simulation, computational design, computational acoustics, scientific computing and robotics, with a [...]

RI Seminar
Guarav Sukhatme
Professor
University of Southern California

Robots at Sea

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Gaurav S. Sukhatme is Dean’s Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). He currently serves as the Chairman of the Computer Science department. His research is in networked robots with applications to aquatic robots and on-body networks. Sukhatme has published extensively in these areas [...]

VASC Seminar
Saurabh Gupta
Graduate Student
University of California, Berkeley

Scene Understanding from RGB-D Images

Event Location: 1507 Newell Simon HallBio: Saurabh Gupta is a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley, where he is advised by Jitendra Malik. His research interests include computer vision and machine learning. During his PhD he has studied the problem of scene understanding from RGB-D images. His work has been supported by the Berkeley Fellowship and [...]

Seminar
Ivan Sutherland & Marc Raibert
Visiting Scientist, Portland State University & President, Boston Dynamics

Machines That Walk

Event Location: Rashid Auditorium - 4401 GHCAbstract: Marc Raibert and Ivan Sutherland came to CMU in 1980 to build walking machines. Marc built a machine that balanced on one leg. Having less courage, Ivan built a machine that used six legs to avoid the balance problem. Marc demonstrated that balance is relatively easy and went [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Tanmay Kumar Mandal

Real-Time Monitoring and Prediction of the Pilot Vehicle System (PVS) Closed-Loop Stability

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Tanmay Kumar Mandal is an Aerospace Engineering Ph.D. candidate in Interactive Robotics Laboratory at West Virginia University. He received his Dual Degree (B.Tech + M.Tech) in Aerospace Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2011. His current research interests are aerial robotics, guidance, navigation, control, and sensor fusion. He has [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Joseph Amato

Symbiotic Planning for Planetary Exploration

Event Location: GHC 2109Bio: Joseph Amato is a M.S. student in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University co-advised by Profs. William "Red" Whittaker and David Wettergreen. He received his B.S. in Robotics Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2012 and spent two years working for Army Operational Test Command at Ft Hood, Texas, before [...]