RI Seminar
Parag Batavia
President
Neya Systems

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 [...]

RI Seminar
Gregory S. Chirikjian
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University

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. [...]

RI Seminar
Matei Ciocarlie
Assistant Professor
Columbia University

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 [...]

RI Seminar
Louis-Philippe Morency
Assistant Professor
LTI

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 [...]

RI Seminar
Sonia Chernova
Assistant Professor
Georgia Institute of Technology

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. [...]

RI Seminar
Maja Pantic
Professor
Imperial College London, Computing Department, UK

Automatic Analysis of Facial Behaviour

Event Location: DH 2210Bio: Maja Pantic obtained her PhD degree in computer science in 2001 from Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Until 2005, she was an Assistant/ Associate Professor at Delft University of Technology. In 2006, she joined the Imperial College London, Department of Computing, UK, where she is Professor of Affective & Behavioural [...]

RI Seminar
Ryan Eustice
Associate Professor
University of Michigan

University of Michigan’s Work Toward Autonomous Cars

Event Location: GHC 6115Bio: Ryan M. Eustice is an Associate Professor in the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at the University of Michigan where he additionally holds joint appointments in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is the Director of the Perceptual Robotics Laboratory [...]

RI Seminar
Keenan Crane
Assistant Professor
RI, Carnegie Mellon

CANCELED Optimizing Algorithms at the Level of Geometry

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Keenan Crane is a new Assistant Professor in the Robotics Institute and Computer Science Department at CMU. He recently finished an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship at Columbia University. He received a B.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006, and a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology [...]