Seminar
The Paradox of Human Performance
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Neville Hogan is Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Director of the Newman Laboratory for Biomechanics and Human Rehabilitation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a co-founder of Interactive Motion Technologies, Inc., and a board member of Advanced Mechanical Technologies, Inc. Born in Dublin, [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]