Seminar
A Convex Polynomial Force-Motion Model for Planar Sliding: Identification and Application
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Jiaji Zhou is a PhD student in the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University advised by Professor Matt Mason and Professor Drew Bagnell. His research interests lie in the intersection of manipulation, machine learning and control, with a focus on system identification, stability condition and planning for contact-rich manipulation. Jiaji has [...]
Human Autonomy through Robotics Autonomy
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Brenna Argall is the June and Donald Brewer Junior Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Northwestern University, and also an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. Her research lies at the intersection of robotics, machine learning and human rehabilitation. [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]