VASC Seminar
Ajay Divakaran
Program Director
SRI International

Comprehensive Human State Modeling and Its Applications

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Ajay Divakaran, Ph.D., is a Program Director and leads the Vision and Multi-Sensor group in SRI International’s Vision and Learning Laboratory. Divakaran is currently the principal investigator for a number of SRI research projects. His work includes multimodal modeling and analysis of affective, cognitive, and physiological aspects of human behavior, interactive [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Sankalp Arora
Carnegie Mellon University

Enabling High Speed Autonomous Flights

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Sankalp Arora is a Ph.D. student in the Robotics Institute advised by Sebastian Scherer. He received his B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the University of Delhi in India in 2010. His current research focuses on exploration senor and path planning for aerial vehicles. He was research staff at FRC [...]

VASC Seminar
Bryan Russell
Research Scientist
Adobe Research, Creative Technologies Lab

Grounding text, maps, and images to 3D geometry

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Bryan Russell is a Research Scientist in the Creative Technologies Lab at Adobe Research in San Francisco. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 2008 under the supervision of Professors William T. Freeman and Antonio Torralba. He was a post-doctoral fellow from 2008-2010 [...]

RI Seminar
Sarjoun Skaff
Founder, CTO
Bossa Nova

Separation Anxiety: Sending Large Robots to Work on Their Own

Event Location: GHC 6115Bio: Sarjoun graduated from the RI PhD program in 2007 and went on to found Bossa Nova Robotics, with a mission to put robots in people's lives. Bossa Nova designed, built and commercialized half a million robot toys, and is currently developing service applications for CMU's Ballbot.Sarjoun leads the development of Bossa [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Kristen Holtz
Carnegie Mellon University

Learning a Context-Dependent Switching Strategy for Robust Visual Odometry

Event Location: GHC 2109Bio: Kristen Holtz is a Ph.D. student in the Robotics Institute advised by Dr. Sebastian Scherer. She received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Control and Dynamical Systems from California Institute of Technology in 2013. Her current research focuses on increasing robustness to unanticipated faults and failures, with the [...]

VASC Seminar
Pengtao Xie
Graduate Student
LTI

Integrating Image Clustering and Codebook Learning

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Pengtao Xie is a graduate student in the Language Technologies Institute, working with Professor Eric Xing. His primary research interests lie in latent space models and large scale distributed machine learning. He received a M.E. from Tsinghua University in 2013 and a B.E. from Sichuan University in 2010. He is the [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Erik Nelson
Carnegie Mellon University

Environment Model Compression for Autonomous Exploration

Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: Erik Nelson is an M.S. student in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Dr. Nathan Michael. He received a B.S. in materials engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in 2013. His research interests lie at the intersection of robotic mapping, perception, and exploration.Abstract: This talk will focus [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Joerg Dittrich
Research Scientist
DLR Braunschweig, Germany

Flight Testing of an Unmanned Aircraft System – A Research Perspective

Event Location: GCH 2109Bio: Joerg Dittrich is a research scientist and a department head at DLR Braunschweig. DLR is the primary German government funded research organization in the field of aerospace engineering as well as the German space agency, employing around 7000 people across multiple sites in Germany. During his first years at DLR he [...]