RI Seminar
Nicholas Roy
Associate Professor
Dept. of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Planning and Learning in Information Space

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Nicholas Roy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT. He received his Ph. D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2003. His research interests include autonomous [...]

RI Seminar
Fernando De la Torre
Assistant Research Professor
The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Learning Components for Human Sensing

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Fernando De la Torre received his B.Sc. degree in Telecommunications (1994), M.Sc. (1996), and Ph. D. (2002) degrees in Electronic Engineering from La Salle School of Engineering in Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain. In 1997 and 2000 he was an Assistant and Associate Professor in the Department of Communications and Signal [...]

Seminar
Malte Helmert
University of Freiburg

Landmarks, Critical Paths and Abstractions: What’s the Difference Anyway?

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Malte Helmert is a lecturer at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, where he graduated with a diploma in computer science in 2001 and a Ph.D. in computer science in 2006. His main research area is classical domain-independent planning, with occasional forays into other areas where combinatorial search techniques can be applied, such as model [...]

VASC Seminar
Uwe Franke
Dr.
Daimler AG, Böblingen Germany

With Two Eyes Intelligent Vehicles Perceive Better

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Uwe Franke received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Aachen, Germany, in 1988 for his work on content based image coding. Since 1989 he is with Daimler Research & Development working on vision based driver assistance systems. He developed Daimler’s lane departure warning system (“Spurassistent”) introduced [...]