RI Seminar
Wei-Min Shen
Director
Polymorphic Robotics Lab, USC/ISI

Self-Reconfigurable Robots and Digital Hormones

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dr. Wei-Min Shen is the Director of Polymorphic Robotics Laboratory, an Associate Director of the Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems, and a Research Associate Professor in Computer Science at University of Southern California. He received his Ph.D. under Nobel Laureate Professor Herbert A. Simon from Carnegie Mellon University in 1989. [...]

RI Seminar
David Hsu
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore

Scaling Up POMDP Solvers for Robot Motion Planning Under Uncertainty

Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: David Hsu is currently an associate professor of computer science at the National University of Singapore and a member of NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences & Engineering (NGS). His research spans robotics, computational biology, and geometric computation. His current interest includes robot motion planning under uncertainty. He received B.Sc. in [...]

RI Seminar
Holly Yanco
Associate Professor
Computer Science Dept, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Designing for Human-Robot Interaction

Event Location: Mauldin Auditorium (NSH 1305)Bio: Holly Yanco is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where she heads the Robotics Lab. Her research interests include human-robot interaction, multi-touch computing, and assistive technology. Dr. Yanco’s research is currently funded by ARL, NSF, NIST, and Microsoft; she received a [...]