RI Seminar
Separation Anxiety: Sending Large Robots to Work on Their Own
Event Location: GHC 6115Bio: Sarjoun graduated from the RI PhD program in 2007 and went on to found Bossa Nova Robotics, with a mission to put robots in people's lives. Bossa Nova designed, built and commercialized half a million robot toys, and is currently developing service applications for CMU's Ballbot.Sarjoun leads the development of Bossa [...]
Neya Systems: How to Bootstrap a Robotics Company in 5 (not-so) Easy Years
Event Location: GHC 6115Bio: Dr. Parag Batavia is the founder of Neya Systems, LLC, in Wexford PA. He is a 1999 graduate of the CMU Robotics Institute Ph.D. program, and a 2009 graduate of Drexel’s MBA program. At Neya, he is responsible for all areas of company growth, and has taken the company from 1 [...]
Stochastic Models in Robotics
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Gregory S. Chirikjian received undergraduate degrees from Johns Hopkins University in 1988, and the Ph.D. degree from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 1992. Since 1992, he has been on the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, where he has been a full professor since 2001. [...]
Versatility in Robotic Manipulation: the Long Road to Everywhere
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Matei Ciocarlie is an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering and affiliate assistant professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. His main interest is in reliable robotic manipulation in unstructured, human environments, focusing on areas such as novel hand designs and control, autonomous and Human-in-the-Loop mobile manipulation, shared autonomy, teleoperation, and assistive [...]
Multimodal Machine Learning: Modeling Human Communication Dynamics
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Louis-Philippe Morency is Assistant Professor in the Language Technology Institute at the Carnegie Mellon University where he leads the Multimodal Communication and Machine Learning Laboratory (MultiComp Lab). He received his Ph.D. and Master degrees from MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In 2008, Dr. Morency was selected as one of [...]
Crowds and Robots: Leveraging the Web to Advance Robot Autonomy
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Sonia Chernova is the Catherine M. and James E. Allchin Early-Career Assistant Professor in the School of Interactive Computing, and the director of the Robot Autonomy and Interactive Learning (RAIL) lab. Her research interests span robotics, interactive machine learning, adjustable autonomy, human computation and human-robot interaction. Dr. Chernova received her Ph.D. [...]