VASC Seminar
Lei Wu
Postdoc
University of Pittsburgh

Visual Representation and Correlation Measurement

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Dr. Lei Wu is currently a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Dept. of Computer Science at University of Pittsburgh. He received Ph.D. in Dept. of Electronic Engineering and Information Science and B.S. degree in Special Class for Gifted Young (SCGY) from University of Science and Technology of China. His research interests include [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Geoff Hollinger
University of Southern California

Autonomous Inspection and the Benefit of Adaptivity

Event Location: NSH3305Bio: Geoffrey A. Hollinger is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Robotic Embedded Systems Laboratory and Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California. He is currently interested in adaptive sensing and distributed coordination for robots operating with limited communication. He has also worked on multi-robot search at Carnegie Mellon University, [...]

RI Seminar
Katsu Yamane
Senior Research Scientist
Disney Research, Pittsburgh

Animating Robots and Characters with Human Motion Capture Data

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Katsu Yamane received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from University of Tokyo in 2002. He is currently a Senior Research Scientist at Disney Research, Pittsburgh and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to joining Disney, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University and [...]

RI Seminar
Vijay S. Gorantla
Associate Professor of Surgery
University of Pittsburgh

Reconstructive Transplantation – Evolution, Experience and Emerging Insights

Event Location: NSH3305Bio: Dr. Gorantla is Associate Professor of Surgery and Administrative Medical Director of the Pittsburgh Reconstructive Transplant Program in the Division of Plastic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Gorantla currently oversees, administers, directs and coordinates research and clinical programs in clinical hand, face and vascularizaed composite transplantation at UPMC, the University [...]

RI Seminar
Steven M. LaValle
University of Illinois

Manipulating Wild Bodies Using Gentle Guidance

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Steven M. LaValle is Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois in 1995. From 1995-1997 he was a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. [...]

VASC Seminar
Erik Learned-Miller
Associate Professor
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Adaptive Image Similarity: The Sharpening Match

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Erik G. Learned-Miller (previously Erik G. Miller) is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he joined the faculty in 2004. His research focusses on computer vision and machine learning. He spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, in [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Stephen Nuske
Field Robotics Center

Automated Estimation of Grapevine Yield and Canopy Size for Precision Vineyard Management

Event Location: GHC2109Bio: Stephen is a Project Scientist at the Robotics Institute and was a PostDoc at the RI from 2008-2010. Prior to arriving at the RI he completed his PhD in Australia conducting the research jointly at the Commonwealth Science and Industry Research Organisation and the University of Queensland. He has worked on a [...]

RI Seminar
Raffaello D’Andrea
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich

Robustness by Necessity: Zero-Downtime Demos, Competitions, and Live Performances

Event Location: NSH3305Bio: Raffaello D'Andrea is professor of Dynamic Systems and Control at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. He also is technical co-founder and chief technical advisor for Kiva Systems, a company that develops adaptive and self-configuring warehouse automation systems using hundreds of networked, mobile robots. He was the faculty advisor and [...]