VASC Seminar
Hyun Soo Park
Assistant Professor, the University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota

Understanding Social and Physical Interactions from First Person Cameras

Event Location: Newell Simon Hall 1507Bio: Hyun Soo Park is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, the University of Minnesota. He is interested in understanding human visual sensorimotor behaviors from first person cameras. Prior to the UMN, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow working with Jianbo Shi at University of Pennsylvania. [...]

VASC Seminar
Tovi Grossman
Distinguished Research Scientist
Autodesk

Instrumented and Connected: Designing Next-Generation Learning Experiences

Event Location: Newell Simon Hall 1507Bio: Tovi Grossman is a Distinguished Research Scientist at Autodesk Research, located in downtown Toronto. Dr. Grossman’s research is in HCI, focusing on input and interaction with new technologies. In particular, he has been exploring how emerging technologies, such as wearables, the Internet of Things, and gamification can be leveraged [...]

RI Seminar
Boris Sofman
Co-Founder, CEO
Anki

The Journey to Consumer Robotics

Event Location: GHC 6115Bio: Boris is co-founder and CEO of Anki, an artificial intelligence and robotics company focused on using these technologies to reinvent everyday consumer experiences. With an initial focus on entertainment, Anki's first product line, Overdrive, is a battle-racing game that allowed a level of physical gameplay and interaction previously not possible outside [...]

RI Seminar
Hanns Tappeiner
Co-Founder, President
Anki

The Journey to Consumer Robotics

Event Location: GHC 6115Bio: Hanns is co-founder and President of Anki, an artificial intelligence and robotics company focused on creating groundbreaking consumer products. Anki's first product line, Overdrive, is a battle-racing game that allowed a level of physical gameplay and interaction previously not possible outside of video games and was one of the top selling [...]

RI Seminar
Lerrel Pinto
Ph.D. Student
Carnegie Mellon-RI

Supersizing Self-supervision: Learning to Grasp from 50K Tries and 700 Robot Hours

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Lerrel recently graduated as a Masters student from CMU RI where he was advised by Professor Abhinav Gupta. His research interests revolve around big data, computer vision and robotics. He is currently a PhD student at CMU RI.Abstract: Current learning-based robot grasping approaches exploit human-labeled datasets for training the models. However, [...]

RI Seminar
Jiaji Zhou
Ph.D. Student
Carnegie Mellon-RI

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 [...]

RI Seminar
Brenna D. Argall
Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Northwestern University

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. [...]

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 [...]