Seminar
Robots and geometry: robot geodesics, pushing string, and grasping cloth
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Devin Balkcom is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College. Balkcom's primary research interest is in robotic manipulation, focusing on the manipulation of flexible materials including cloth, paper, and string. Balkcom received his Ph.D. in 2004 from the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute, advised by Matthew T. Mason.Abstract: Theory and [...]
Coordinating Multi-Agent Learners Thru Multi-Level Supervisory Control
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Victor Lesser received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 1973. He is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Multi-Agent Systems Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts. His major research focus is on the control and organization of complex AI systems. He has [...]
Incomplete Domain Models, Uncertain Users and Open Worlds: Foundations of Model-lite Planning
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Subbarao Kambhampati is a professor of computer science and engineering at Arizona State University, where he directs the Yochan research group. His research and teaching interests are broadly split between automated planning and intelligent information integration. Kambhampati is the recipient of an NSF Research Initiation Award (1992), an NSF Young Investigator [...]
Temporal Causality for Visual Event Analysis
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Jim Rehg is a Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is co-Director of the Computational Perception Lab and Associate Director of Research in the Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines. He received his Ph.D. from CMU in 1995 and worked at the Cambridge [...]
Next-generation Interactive Simulation
Event Location: Rashid Auditorium - Gates and Hillman Centers 4401Bio: I am an Assistant Professor in the computer graphics group at Carnegie Mellon University. I received my PhD under Zoran Popovic in the computer graphics group at the University of Washington, and was a postdoc in the Baker Group under Zoran Popovic and David Baker. [...]