RI Seminar

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dr. Gita Sukthankar is an Associate Professor and Charles N. Millican Faculty Fellow in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida, and an affiliate faculty member at UCF’s Institute for Simulation and Training. She received her Ph.D. from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon and an A.B. [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Jonathan W. Hurst is the College of Engineering Dean's Professor of Robotics in the School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering at Oregon State University, and the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Agility Robotics. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, and both an M.S. and Ph.D. in Robotics, all [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Gaurav S. Sukhatme is Dean’s Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). He currently serves as the Chairman of the Computer Science department. His research is in networked robots with applications to aquatic robots and on-body networks. Sukhatme has published extensively in these areas [...]

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Raj Madhavan is the Founder & CEO of Humanitarian Robotics Technologies, LLC, Maryland, U.S.A. and a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Robotics with AMMACHI Labs at Amrita University, Kerala, India. He has held appointments with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (March 2001-January 2010) as an R&D staff member based at the National [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Yanxi Liu received her B.S. degree in physics/electrical engineering (Beijing, China), her Ph.D. degree in computer science for group theory applications in robotics (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US), and her postdoctoral training in the robotics lab of LIFIA/IMAG (Grenoble, France). Before joining the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon Institute in 1996 [...]

Event Location: Newell Simon Hall 1507Bio: Yuandong Tian is a Research Scientist in Facebook AI Research, working on Deep Learning and Computer Vision. Prior to that, he was a Software Engineer in Google Self-driving Car team in 2013-2014. He received Ph.D in Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University on 2013, Bachelor and Master degree of Computer [...]

Event Location: GHC 6115Bio: Boris is co-founder and CEO of Anki, an artificial intelligence and robotics company focused on using these technologies to reinvent everyday consumer experiences. With an initial focus on entertainment, Anki's first product line, Overdrive, is a battle-racing game that allowed a level of physical gameplay and interaction previously not possible outside [...]

Event Location: GHC 6115Bio: Hanns is co-founder and President of Anki, an artificial intelligence and robotics company focused on creating groundbreaking consumer products. Anki's first product line, Overdrive, is a battle-racing game that allowed a level of physical gameplay and interaction previously not possible outside of video games and was one of the top selling [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Lerrel recently graduated as a Masters student from CMU RI where he was advised by Professor Abhinav Gupta. His research interests revolve around big data, computer vision and robotics. He is currently a PhD student at CMU RI.Abstract: Current learning-based robot grasping approaches exploit human-labeled datasets for training the models. However, [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Jiaji Zhou is a PhD student in the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University advised by Professor Matt Mason and Professor Drew Bagnell. His research interests lie in the intersection of manipulation, machine learning and control, with a focus on system identification, stability condition and planning for contact-rich manipulation. Jiaji has [...]