VASC Seminar
Kyros Kutulakos
Professor
University of Toronto

Less is More: New Visual Perspectives by Capturing Less than Meets the Eye

Event Location: NSH 1507Abstract: When we snap a photo with a conventional camera, we record all incident light no matter how it got there. In this talk I will discuss a new family of cameras that gives us many more degrees of freedom: these cameras record just a fraction of the light coming from a [...]

VASC Seminar
Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán
Associate professor
UC Merced

Learning nested systems using auxiliary coordinates

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán is an associate professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Merced. He received the degree of "licenciado en informática" (MSc in computer science) from the Technical University of Madrid in 1995 and a PhD in computer science from the University of Sheffield in [...]

RI Seminar
Pierre E. Dupont
Boston Children Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Creating Robots for Ultra-minimally Invasive Surgery

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Pierre E. Dupont is Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Bioengineering and holder of the Edward P. Marram Chair at Boston Children’s Hospital. His academic appointments include Visiting Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. His research group develops robotic instrumentation and imaging technology for [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Issa Nesnas
Robotic Mobility Group Supervisor, Principal Member of Technical Staff
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Planetary Robotic Exploration: Mobility and Autonomy

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Issa Nesnas is a principal member of the technical staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the supervisor of the Robotic Mobility group. He is leading research in extreme terrain mobility and microgravity mobility projects, in collaboration with university partners. Prior to that, he led a multi-center project for developing reusable [...]

RI Seminar
Joydeep Biswas
RI PhD student
Carnegie Mellon University

CMDragons’13: RoboCup Small-Size Robot Soccer Team

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: The CMDragons research team is advised by Manuela Veloso, Herbert A. Simon Professor in CSD and courtesy in RI. The other members of the team are Joydeep Biswas (team leader, RI PhD student), Juan Pablo Mendoza (RI PhD student), Danny Zhu (CSD PhD student), Benjamin Choi (CSD junior), and Alex Etling [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Young-Woo Seo
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Robotics Institute

Estimation and Tracking of Local Road Geometry for Assisting Reliable Urban Driving

Event Location: GHC 2109Bio: Dr. Young-Woo Seo is currently a post-doctoral fellow, working with GM-CMU Autonomous Driving Collaborative Research Lab (AD-CRL) and the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. During his post-doctoral period, he has been working on developing robust perception algorithms for reliable autonomous driving. His tasks involve in developing computer vision algorithm for understanding [...]

RI Seminar
Sangbae Kim
Assistant Professor
MIT

Learning from biology : actuation, structure and control of the MIT cheetah robot

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Sangbae Kim has served as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT since 2009. As the director of the Biomimetic Robotics Laboratory, Sangbae has been developing bio-inspired robotic design processes. His design approaches focus on the design principles from complex biological systems from understanding the difference between biological and engineering [...]

RI Seminar
William (Red) Whittaker
Head of the Field Robotics Center
Carnegie Mellon University

Robots at Work: Thirty Years

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Red Whittaker is the Fredkin professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He has developed dozens of technologies and robots, breaking new ground in autonomous vehicles, field robotics, space exploration, mining and agriculture. Whittaker developed the robots that cleaned up [...]

RI Seminar
Pieter Abbeel
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
UC Berkeley

Machine Learning and Optimization for Robotics

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Pieter Abbeel received a BS/MS in Electrical Engineering from KU Leuven (Belgium) and received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2008. He joined the faculty at UC Berkeley in Fall 2008, with an appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. He has won various [...]

VASC Seminar
Sung Ju Hwang
Post Doctoral Research Associate
Disney Research Pittsbugh

Discriminative Object Categorization with External Semantic Knowledge

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Sung Ju Hwang is a postdoctoral research associate at Disney Research Pittsburgh, working under the supervision of Dr. Leonid Sigal. He received a B.S. degree in computer science and engineering from Seoul National University, Korea, and a M.A. degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin, in 2008 [...]