RI Seminar
Eric Singer
Founder and Director
LEMUR

Robots, Slime, Propane, and Other Ways to Make Strange Musical Instruments

Event Location: 1305 Newell Simon HallBio: Eric Singer is a musician, artist, engineer and programmer and the Founder and Director of LEMUR. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon; a Diploma in Music Synthesis (Magna Cum Laude) from Berklee College of Music; and an MS in Computer Science from New York University. [...]

RI Seminar
Paul Oh
Associate Department Head, Mechanical Engineering
Drexel University

Robotics: Pathways to Transformative Research

Bio: Prof. Paul Oh is the Associate Department Head at Drexel's Mechanical Engineering Department. He received mechanical engineering degrees from McGill (B.Eng 1989), Seoul National (M.Sc 1992), and Columbia (PhD 1999). Honors include faculty fellowships at NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (2002), Naval Research Lab (2003), the NSF CAREER award (2004), the SAE Ralph Teetor Award [...]

RI Seminar
Tara Estlin
Senior Member, Artificial Intelligence Group
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

AEGIS Automated Targeting for the Mars Exploration Rover Mission

Bio: Dr. Estlin is a senior member of the Artificial Intelligence Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She has over 10 years of experience in developing spacecraft autonomy software. A primary goal of these efforts is to support onboard sequencing and opportunistic science handling for future rover missions. She is currently leading the AEGIS Project, [...]

RI Seminar
Bambi Brewer
Assistant Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology
University of Pittsburgh

Where robots meet the brain: The intersection of robotics and neurological disorders

Event Location: 1305 Newell Simon HallBio: Bambi Brewer, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh in the Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, where she teaches in the Prosthetics and Orthotics program. She received her PhD and MS from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in 2006 and 2002, respectively. She [...]