RI Seminar
Rodney Brooks
Chairman and CTO
Rethink Robotics, Inc.

A New Class of Industrial Robot

Event Location: UC McConomyBio: Rodney Brooks is the Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus) at MIT. He is a robotics entrepreneur and Founder, Chairman and CTO of Rethink Robotics (formerly Heartland Robotics). He is also a Founder, former Board Member (1990 - 2011) and former CTO (1990 - 2008) of iRobot Corp (Nasdaq: IRBT). Dr. Brooks [...]

VASC Seminar
Laszlo Jeni
CMU / Univ. of Pittsburgh

Facial Expression Analysis based on 3D Deformable Models

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Laszlo Attila Jeni is a research scientist at the Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. The main body of his work concentrates on machine learning for affective behavior analysis and its applications, including 3D deformable face registration, facial expression analysis and human-machine interaction. At present most of his research [...]

RI Seminar
Irfan Essa
Georgia Tech
School of Interactive Computing
GVU and RIM @ GT Centers

Video Analysis and Enhancement: Video Stabilization and Rolling Shutter Removal on YouTube

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Irfan Essa is a Professor in the School of Interactive Computing (iC) of the College of Computing (CoC), and Adjunct Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (GA Tech), in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He is also the Director of Off-Campus Initiatives for the College of [...]

VASC Seminar
Ashutosh Saxena
Assitant Professor
Cornell University

How should a robot perceive the world?

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Ashutosh Saxena is an assistant professor in computer science department at Cornell University. His research interests include machine learning and robotics perception, especially in the domain of personal robots. He received his MS in 2006 and Ph.D. in 2009 from Stanford University, and his B.Tech. in 2004 from Indian Institute of [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Richard Volpe
Manager of the Mobility and Robotic Systems Section
NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

2012 Robotics Activities at JPL

Event Location: GHC 2109Bio: Richard Volpe is Manager of the Mobility and Robotic Systems Section of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. The section is a team of over 90 robotics engineers doing research and spaceflight implementation of robotic systems for Roving, Digging, Ballooning, Drilling, and other modes of in-situ planetary exploration. In [...]

RI Seminar
Ren Ng, Ph.D.
Founder & Executive Chairman, Lytro

Lytro – Light Field Cameras, Entrepreneurship and the Future of Photography

Event Location: Disney Research Pittsburgh, CIC Building, Lower Level, Tomorrowland Conference RoomBio: Ren Ng is the founder of Lytro, and developed the underlying technology during graduate school. Ren's Ph.D. research on light field technology won the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award and Stanford University’s Arthur Samuel Award. Ren's leadership of Lytro has also earned him a [...]

RI Seminar
Jaydev P. Desai
Director, RAMS Laboratory
Member, Maryland Robotics Center, Institute for Systems Research
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland

Towards Robot-Assisted Neurosurgery Under Continuous MRI

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dr. Jaydev P. Desai is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and a Member of the Maryland Robotics Center at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP). Prior to joining UMCP, he was an Associate Professor at Drexel University. He completed his undergraduate studies from the Indian [...]

VASC Seminar
David Thompson
Nasa Jet Propulsion Lab

Orbiters, Landers, and Rovers: Computer Vision for Autonomous Space Exploration

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: David Thompson received a PhD from the Robotics Institute, where he participated in the FRC Life in the Atacama and Science Autonomy projects. These days he is a research technologist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. He works in the Machine Learning and Instrument Autonomy group, and focuses [...]

RI Seminar
Andrew Biewener
Harvard University

Animal models for robotic design: neuromuscular and biomechanical studies of terrestrial and aerial locomotion

Bio: Andrew A. Biewener received his BS degree in Zoology from Duke University, NC, USA in 1974 and his MA and PhD in Biology from Harvard University, MA, USA in 1982. His academic appointments include being an Instructor (1982-84), Assistant Professor (1984-90), and Professor (1990-1998) at the University of Chicago, where he also served as [...]

VASC Seminar
Dov Katz
CMU

Interactive Perception for Autonomous Manipulation

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dov Katz is a postdoctoral fellow with the National Robotics Engineering Center at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include autonomous manipulation, computer vision, and machine learning. He received his MS in 2008 and Ph.D. in 2011 from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and his BS in 2004 from Tel-Aviv University, [...]