RI Seminar
Robotic Data Gathering in the Wild
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Volkan Isler is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Minnesota. He is a 2009-2012 resident fellow at the Institute on Environment and 2010-2012 McKnight Land-Grant Professor. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a post-doctoral researcher at CITRIS at UC Berkeley. [...]
Machine Learning For Modeling Real-World Dynamical Systems
Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: Byron Boots is an Assistant Professor in the School of Interactive Computing and the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. He directs the Georgia Tech Robot Learning Lab, which is affiliated with the Center for Machine Learning, the Institute for Data Engineering and Science, and the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent [...]
The Next Frontier in AI: Unsupervised Learning
Event Location: McConomy Auditorium, CUCBio: Yann LeCun is Director of AI Research at Facebook, and Silver Professor of Data Science, Computer Science, Neural Science, and Electrical Engineering at New York University, affiliated with the NYU Center for Data Science, the Courant Institute of Mathematical Science, the Center for Neural Science, and the Electrical and Computer [...]
Autonomous Intelligent Service Robots: Learning and Explanations in Human-Robot Interaction
Manuela Veloso Herbert A Simon University Professor, Carnegie Mellon Abstract We research on autonomous mobile robots with a seamless integration of perception, cognition, and action. In this talk, I will first introduce our CoBot service robots and their novel localization and symbiotic autonomy, which enable them to consistently move in our buildings, now for more [...]
Beyond Geometric Path Planning: Paradigms and algorithms for modern robotics
Kris Hauser Associate Professor, Duke University Abstract The development of fast randomized algorithms for geometric path planning – computing collision-free paths for high dimensional systems – was a major achievement in the field of motion planning in the 2000's. But since then, recent advances in affordable robot sensors, actuators, and systems have changed the robotics [...]
Pathway Toward Vision Restoration, Artificial Vision, Artificial Retina, Optogenetics
José Alain Sahel, MD Professor & Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine Abstract Progress in ophthalmology over the past decade moved preclinical data to clinical proof-of-concept studies bringing innovative therapeutic strategies to the market. Diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) destroy photoreceptors but leave intact and [...]