Seminar
Neural Mechanisms Underlying Contextual Associative Processing
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Elissa Aminoff received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2008 under the mentorship of Dr. Moshe Bar and Dr. Daniel Schacter. Her dissertation work focused on uncovering the neural mechanisms underlying contextual associative processing and the insights this provides in visual object recognition and memory related processing. From 2008 to the [...]
How Prototyping Practices Affect Design Results
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Steven is an Assistant Professor at the HCI Institute at Carnegie Mellon University where he researches human-computer interaction, creative problem-solving, prototyping practices, and crowdsourcing methods. He is recipient of Stanford's Postdoctoral Research Award and co-recipient of a Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Grant. He received an MS and PhD in Human-Centered [...]
Learning Richly Structured Representations From Weakly Annotated Data
Event Location: McConomy Auditorium, First Floor University CenterBio: Daphne Koller is the Rajeev Motwani Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. Her main research interest is in developing and using machine learning and probabilistic methods to model and analyze complex domains. Her current research projects include models in computational biology, computational medicine, and [...]
The Next Generation of Facial Expression Recognition Systems
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Dr. Michel F. Valstar is currently a Visiting Researcher at MIT's Media Lab, and a Research Associate in the intelligent Behaviour Understanding Group (iBUG) at Imperial College London. He received his masters degree in Electrical Engineering at Delft University of Technology in 2005 and his PhD in computer science at Imperial [...]
Heads-up, hands-free operation of UGVs through Embedded Computer Vision
Event Location: GHC 4405Bio: Dr. Geyer a Senior Lead Research Scientist at iRobot Corporation, and since joining iRobot in 2008 has lead efforts in perception on mobile platforms, especially in the area of computer vision. Prior to joining iRobot, he was a Project Scientist in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he participated [...]
A deep spiking network model for fast stimulus-response association learning
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Guido Bugmann is an associate professor (Reader) in Intelligent Systems at the University of Plymouth's School of Computing and Mathematics where he develops human-robot dialogue systems, vision-based navigation systems for wheeled and humanoid robots, and investigates computational properties of biological vision and decision making. He previously worked at the Swiss Federal [...]
Safe and Precise Planetary Landing Technologies
Event Location: NSH3305Bio: Dr. Andrew E. Johnson graduated with Highest Distinction from the University of Kansas in 1991 with a BS in Engineering Physics and a BS in Mathematics. In 1997, he received his Ph.D. from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University where he developed the spin-image surface signature for three dimensional object recognition [...]
Robust motion planning for walking robots and robotic birds
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Russ is the X Consortium Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the MIT Jerome Saltzer Award for undergraduate teaching, the DARPA Young Faculty [...]
Technology in Support of Graceful Aging
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Ron Baecker is Professor of Computer Science, Bell Chair in Human-Computer Interaction, co-founder of the Dynamic Graphics Project, founder of the Knowledge Media Design Institute, and founder and director of the Technologies for Aging Gracefully lab (TAGlab) at the University of Toronto. He is also Affiliate Scientist with theKunin-Lunenfeld Applied Research [...]
From Sorcery to Science: how Hollywood Physics impacts the Sciences
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Eitan Grinspun is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New York. He was Professeur d'Université Invité at l'Université Pierre et Marie Curie in 2009, a Research Scientist at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences from 2003-2004, and a graduate student at the California Institute of [...]