RI Seminar
Sebastian Scherer
Systems Scientist, RI
Carnegie Mellon

Toward Autonomous Rotorcraft

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Sebastian Scherer is a Systems Scientist at the Robotics Institute (RI) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). His research focuses on enabling autonomy for unmanned rotorcraft to operate at low altitude in cluttered environments. He and His team have shown the fastest and most tested obstacle avoidance on an Yamaha RMax (2006), [...]

RI Seminar
Christoph Bregler
Professor of Computer Science
NYU

Computer Vision for Movie Making and Infographics

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Chris Bregler is a Professor of Computer Science at NYU and is also working with Lucasfilm's Advanced Development Group and with Industrial Light & Magic on new vision based tracking systems. Prior to NYU he was on the faculty at Stanford University and worked for several companies including Hewlett Packard, Interval, [...]

RI Seminar
Michael Abrash
Chief Scientist
Oculus VR

Why Virtual Reality Isn’t the Next Big Platform

Event Location: GHC 6115Bio: Over the last 30 years, Michael has worked at companies that made graphics hardware, computer-based instrumentation, and rendering software, been the GDI lead for the first couple of versions of Windows NT, worked with John Carmack on Quake, worked on Xbox and Xbox 360, written or co-written at least four software [...]

RI Seminar
Dov Katz
Senior Vision Engineer
Oculus VR

Why Virtual Reality Isn’t the Next Big Platform

Event Location: GHC 6115Bio: Dov Katz is leading Oculus VR's computer vision R&D. He is passionate about human and computer perception. His research interest include computer vision, machine learning, and autonomous manipulation. At Oculus, he developed a high precision - low latency optical position tracking system. He is currently engaged in several projects that will [...]

RI Seminar
Katsushi Ikeuchi
Professor
The University of Tokyo

From Shape-from-shading through e-Heritage

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dr. Katsushi Ikeuchi is a Professor at the University of Tokyo. He received a Ph.D. degree in Information Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1978. After working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s AI Lab for two years, Electrotechnical Lab, Japan for five years, and Carnegie Mellon University for ten [...]

RI Seminar
Michael Wang
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
National University of Singapore

From Compliant Mechanisms to Hyper-Elastic Robots

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Michael Yu Wang is a Professor at National University of Singapore (NUS). Before joining NUS in 2014, he served on the engineering faculty at University of Maryland and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has numerous professional honors–National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award, 1993; Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award from [...]

RI Seminar
Yong-Lae Park
Assistant Professor
Carnegie Mellon, RI

Bio-Inspired Soft Robotics: New Ways of Sensing and Actuation

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Yong-Lae Park is an Assistant Professor in the Robotics Institute and the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Prior to joining CMU in 2013, Prof. Park completed his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, in 2010, and conducted postdoctoral research in the School of Engineering and [...]

RI Seminar
Kevin Dowling
Vice President of Engineering
4moms

Learning Through Startups – What They Don’t Teach You in Graduate School

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dr. Dowling is the VP of Engineering for 4moms, a fast-growing Pittsburgh-based company that develops and markets advanced high-tech juvenile products. Previously he was Vice-President of Research and Development at Cambridge-based MC10, Dr. Dowling was responsible for driving MC10's high-performance stretchable electronics technology into products and applications. He built and led [...]

RI Seminar
Michael Kaess
Assistant Research Professor, RI
Carnegie Mellon, RI

Robust and Efficient Real-time Mapping for Autonomous Robots

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Michael Kaess is an Assistant Research Professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Prior to joining CMU in 2013, he was a Research Scientist (2010-2013) and a Postdoctoral Associate (2008-2010) in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received [...]

RI Seminar
James Gosling
Chief Software Architect
Liquid Robotics

Presentation and roundtable: Self-sustaining ocean-going robots — and others — and data collection

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: James Gosling received a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Calgary, Canada in 1977. He received a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1983. The title of his thesis was "The Algebraic Manipulation of Constraints". He spent many years as a VP & Fellow at Sun Microsystems. [...]