VASC Seminar
Aswin Sankaranarayanan
Assistant Professor, ECE, CMU

Breaking the resolution limits of sensors: Compressive sensing of high-dimensional visual signals

Event Location: TBABio: Aswin Sankaranarayanan is an Assistant Professor in the ECE Department at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. His research interests lie in the areas of computer vision, signal processing, and image and video acquisition. Prof. Sankaranarayanan received his B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 2003 and MSc [...]

RI Seminar
Dan Stilwell
ECE Department, Virginia Tech

Think global, act local: challenges for autonomy in a tropical riverine system

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dr. Dan Stilwell is a Professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia. He earned a PhD in electrical engineering at Johns Hopkins University in 1999, the MS from Virginia Tech in 1993, and the BS from the University of Massachusetts in 1991. His [...]

VASC Seminar
David Crandall
Assistant Professor
Indiana University

Studying the world by mining photo-sharing websites

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: David Crandall is an Assistant Professor in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University. He received the Ph.D. in computer science from Cornell University (2008) and the M.S. and B.S. degrees in computer science and engineering from the Pennsylvania State University (2001). He was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at [...]

RI Seminar
Gregory D. Hager
Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and the Deputy Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Computer Integr
Johns Hopkins University

Computational Modelling and Enhancement of Human Skill: Toward Effective Human-Machine Collaborative Systems

Event Location: 1305 Newell-Simon HallBio: Gregory D. Hager is a Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and the Deputy Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Computer Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology. His research interests include time-series analysis of image data, image-guided robotics, medical applications of image analysis and robotics, [...]

VASC Seminar
Noah Snavely
Assistant Professor
Cornell University

Calibrating the World’s Photos with a Massive 3D Database

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Noah Snavely is an assistant professor of Computer Science at Cornell University, where he has been on the faculty since 2009. He received a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Arizona in 2003, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington in [...]

Seminar
Daniel H. Wilson
New York Times Bestselling Author and Roboticist

Sci-fi Destroys the Future, Science Builds It

Event Location: Rashid Auditorium, 4401 Gates and Hillman CentersBio: Daniel H. Wilson is the New York Times bestselling author of the techno-thriller Robopocalypse, as well as titles such as How to Survive a Robot Uprising, A Boy and His Bot, and Amped. Wilson earned a Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University. He has published [...]

VASC Seminar
Larry Davis
Professor
University of Maryland

A tasting menu of research on visual recognition at UMD

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Larry S. Davis received his B.A. from Colgate University in 1970 and his M. S. and Ph. D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland in 1974 and 1976 respectively. From 1977-1981 he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas, Austin. He [...]

RI Seminar
Ayanna Howard
Motorola Foundation Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chair, Robotics PhD Program
Georgia Tech

Robots in Play: Human-Robot Interaction Schemes for Pediatric Therapy

Event Location: 1305 Newell-Simon HallBio: Ayanna Howard is the Motorola Foundation Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She received her B.S. from Brown University, her M.S.E.E. from the University of Southern California, and her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1999. [...]