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University of Michigan’s Work Toward Autonomous Cars
Event Location: GHC 6115Bio: Ryan M. Eustice is an Associate Professor in the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at the University of Michigan where he additionally holds joint appointments in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is the Director of the Perceptual Robotics Laboratory [...]
Unsupervised Deep Feature Learning from Video
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Ross Goroshin has recently obtained his PhD under Yann LeCun from the Department of Computer Science at New York University's Courant Institute. He received a masters in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech and his bachelors in Electrical Engineering from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Abstract: Many recent empirical successes [...]
Opportunities Building Visual Technology & Computer Vision Startups
Event Location: GHC 6115Bio: Evan Nisselson invests in early stage companies via LDV Capital with a focus in: Visual Technologies from “Capture to Smile.” He is a serial entrepreneur and digital media expert of over 20 years. He organizing the LDV Vision Summit and LDV Community dinners. He mentors at Seedcamp, 500 Startups, and Founders [...]
Route Determination for Planetary Rovers
Event Location: GHC 2109Bio: Eugene Fang is a M.S. student in the Robotics Institute advised by William “Red” Whittaker. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley in 2014. His current research focuses on route determination for planetary rovers.Abstract: One of the primary challenges of planetary rover [...]
Painting the way to the moon – using chaos for solar system travel
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Ed Belbruno is both an astrophysicist and artist. He is a recognized painter, with a recent exhibition at Lincoln Center and a painting in NASA's executive collection in Washington. Ed is affiliated with Princeton University. He received his doctorate in mathematics in 1980 from the Courant Institute of New York University. [...]
CANCELED Optimizing Algorithms at the Level of Geometry
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Keenan Crane is a new Assistant Professor in the Robotics Institute and Computer Science Department at CMU. He recently finished an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship at Columbia University. He received a B.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006, and a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology [...]
Design in context: bringing the physical world into CAD tools
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Ryan Schmidt is a Research Scientist and head of the Design & Fabrication Group at Autodesk Research in Toronto, Canada. He is the creator of several novel 3D design tools, including Meshmixer, which was acquired by Autodesk in 2011. At Autodesk he has evolved Meshmixer into one of the standard tools [...]
Recovery of Function in Major Spinal Cord Injury Using Epidural Stimulation
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Joel Burdick received his undergraduate degrees in mechanical engineering and chemistry from Duke University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. He has been with the department of Mechanical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology since May 1988, where he has been the recipient of the [...]
CANCELEDThe Depth of Our Understanding: Vision, Language, and Humor
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: C. Lawrence Zitnick is a principal researcher in the Interactive Visual Media group at Microsoft Research, and is an affiliate associate professor at the University of Washington. He is interested in a broad range of topics related to visual object recognition. His current interests include object detection, semantically interpreting visual scenes, [...]