Seminar
Wave function representations in shape matching and indexing
Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: Anand Rangarajan has worked in shape analysis for over twenty years. After receiving the Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in 1991, he worked at Yale University in both the radiology and computer science departments until the advent of the new millennium. Since then, he has been in the computer [...]
Learning Through Startups – What They Don’t Teach You in Graduate School
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dr. Dowling is the VP of Engineering for 4moms, a fast-growing Pittsburgh-based company that develops and markets advanced high-tech juvenile products. Previously he was Vice-President of Research and Development at Cambridge-based MC10, Dr. Dowling was responsible for driving MC10's high-performance stretchable electronics technology into products and applications. He built and led [...]
Robust and Efficient Real-time Mapping for Autonomous Robots
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Michael Kaess is an Assistant Research Professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Prior to joining CMU in 2013, he was a Research Scientist (2010-2013) and a Postdoctoral Associate (2008-2010) in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received [...]
Large Scale Visual Recognition in Real-World Images
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Jia Li is a research scientist at Yahoo! Research. She leads the Visual Computing and Learning Group. Her research interests are computer vision, machine learning，social network analysis and multimedia analysis. She received her Ph.D. degree from the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. She is the leader of the OPTIMOL team, [...]
Metric Global Localization using Street View
Event Location: GHC 2109Bio: Pratik Agarwal received his B.E. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology, India in 2010, and M.S.E. in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2012, where he also worked as a research assistant at the APRIL robotics laboratory. Currently, he is a [...]
Presentation and roundtable: Self-sustaining ocean-going robots — and others — and data collection
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: James Gosling received a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Calgary, Canada in 1977. He received a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1983. The title of his thesis was "The Algebraic Manipulation of Constraints". He spent many years as a VP & Fellow at Sun Microsystems. [...]
Long-Term Visual Route Following for Mobile Robots
Event Location: NHS 1305Bio: Dr. Timothy Barfoot (Associate Professor, University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies -- UTIAS) holds the Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Autonomous Space Robotics and works in the area of guidance, navigation, and control of mobile robots for space and terrestrial applications. He is interested in developing methods to allow [...]
Object Detection: from Structured Models to Deep ConvNets and Back Again
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Ross Girshick is a Researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA. He completed his Ph.D. in computer vision at The University of Chicago under the supervision of Pedro Felzenszwalb in 2012. Following his Ph.D., he spent two wonderful years as a postdoctoral fellow working with Jitendra Malik and Trevor Darrell at [...]
Spring-loading human locomotion: Taking inspiration from biology to improve lower-limb exoskeleton design
Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: Dr. Gregory S. Sawicki is an Assistant Professor in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University (1999) and the University of California-Davis (2001). Prior to his [...]
Improving visual category recognition by diversity and commonality
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Jonghyun Choi is a PhD candidate in the Computer Vision Lab at the University of Maryland, working with Prof. Larry Davis. He received the BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from Seoul National University, Seoul Korea in 2003 and 2008 respectively. He has worked as an intern [...]