RI Seminar
Gliders, bicycles and walking robots
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Andy Ruina is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University where he has been, but for various leaves, since the afternoon of Monday August 25, 1980. He teaches various basic mechanics and math classes. His early research was on rock friction and sliding instability, with the aim of increasing understanding [...]
Bootstrapping a startup: 3D scanning for fun and profit (?)
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Damion Shelton is CTO of threeRivers 3D, a Pittsburgh-based 3D imaging company which he co-founded in 2007 after receiving a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University. At threeRivers 3D he is responsible for the software and embedded systems development for threeRivers 3D’s off-the-shelf and custom line of 3D scanners. His [...]
A New Class of Industrial Robot
Event Location: UC McConomyBio: Rodney Brooks is the Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus) at MIT. He is a robotics entrepreneur and Founder, Chairman and CTO of Rethink Robotics (formerly Heartland Robotics). He is also a Founder, former Board Member (1990 - 2011) and former CTO (1990 - 2008) of iRobot Corp (Nasdaq: IRBT). Dr. Brooks [...]
School of Interactive Computing
GVU and RIM @ GT Centers
Video Analysis and Enhancement: Video Stabilization and Rolling Shutter Removal on YouTube
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Irfan Essa is a Professor in the School of Interactive Computing (iC) of the College of Computing (CoC), and Adjunct Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (GA Tech), in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He is also the Director of Off-Campus Initiatives for the College of [...]
Lytro – Light Field Cameras, Entrepreneurship and the Future of Photography
Event Location: Disney Research Pittsburgh, CIC Building, Lower Level, Tomorrowland Conference RoomBio: Ren Ng is the founder of Lytro, and developed the underlying technology during graduate school. Ren's Ph.D. research on light field technology won the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award and Stanford University’s Arthur Samuel Award. Ren's leadership of Lytro has also earned him a [...]
Member, Maryland Robotics Center, Institute for Systems Research
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Towards Robot-Assisted Neurosurgery Under Continuous MRI
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dr. Jaydev P. Desai is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and a Member of the Maryland Robotics Center at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP). Prior to joining UMCP, he was an Associate Professor at Drexel University. He completed his undergraduate studies from the Indian [...]
Animal models for robotic design: neuromuscular and biomechanical studies of terrestrial and aerial locomotion
Bio: Andrew A. Biewener received his BS degree in Zoology from Duke University, NC, USA in 1974 and his MA and PhD in Biology from Harvard University, MA, USA in 1982. His academic appointments include being an Instructor (1982-84), Assistant Professor (1984-90), and Professor (1990-1998) at the University of Chicago, where he also served as [...]
Revealing the invisible
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Frédo Durand is an associate professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He received his PhD from Grenoble University, France, in 1999, supervised by Claude Puech and George Drettakis. From 1999 till 2002, [...]
Northwestern University
Force Feedback for Fingertips
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Ed Colgate is the Breed University Professor of Design at Northwestern University. His research interests lie in the areas of haptic interface, telemanipulation, prosthetics and physical human-robot interaction. With his colleague Michael Peshkin, Colgate is the inventor of a class of collaborative robots known as “cobots.” He is the founding Editor-in-Chief [...]
Explaining complex physical events using large scale simulations. Case Study: Crash of Polish Air Force One in Smolensk, Russia, on April 10, 2010
Event Location: Hamburg Hall 1000(PLEASE NOTE TIME AND LOCATION)Tea Reception4:30 PM GHC 6115Bio: Dr. Wieslaw K. Binienda, F. ASCE. currently serves as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Akron. He received his Master of Science degree from the Warsaw Polytechnic and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University [...]