RI Seminar

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: I am a professor for computer science at the University of Freiburg and head of the research lab for Autonomous Intelligent Systems. My areas of interest lie in artificial intelligence and mobile robots. My research mainly focuses on the development of robust and adaptive techniques for state estimation and control. Over [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Wojciech Matusik is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, where he leads the Computational Fabrication Group.Before coming to MIT, he worked at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Adobe Systems, and Disney Research Zurich. He studied computer graphics at MIT [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Kanna is a Visiting Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Univ. of Porto affiliated with the Underwater Systems Technology Lab. Till recently he was the Principal Researcher in Autonomy at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (http://www.mbari.org) a privately funded non-profit Oceanographic institute which he joined in October 2005. Prior to that he [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: John J. Leonard is Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering and Associate Department Head for Research in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is also a member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). His research addresses the problems of navigation and mapping for autonomous mobile robots. [...]

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. [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Jan Peters is a full professor (W3) for Intelligent Autonomous Systems at the Computer Science Department of the Technische Universitaet Darmstadt and at the same time a senior research scientist and group leader at the Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, where he heads the interdepartmental Robot Learning Group. Jan Peters has [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Michael J. Tarr is the Head of the Department of Psychology in Carnegie Mellon University’s Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Chair of Carnegie Mellon's BrainHub Steering Committee. He studies the neural, cognitive and computational mechanisms underlying visual perception and cognition. He is particularly interested in object and [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: I am a Senior Commercialization Specialist at the NREC and the CEO of Edge Case Research, a company I co-founded to help make autonomous vehicles and other complex software-based systems safer and more reliable. I have sixteen years of experience developing advanced robotic systems for industry, the Department of Defense, and [...]

Event Location: CIC DEC RoomBio: Paul Debevec is a Research Professor at the University of Southern California and the Chief Visual Officer at USC's Institute for Creative Technologies. From his 1996 P.hD. at UC Berkeley, Debevec’s publications and animations have focused on techniques for photogrammetry, image‐based rendering, high dynamic range imaging, image‐based lighting, appearance measurement, [...]