RI Seminar
NASA & Robotics: investing in America’s Future
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dr. Michael Gazarik serves as Associate Administrator of the Space Technology Mission Directorate. As Associate Administrator, he manages and executes the Space Technology programs, focusing on infusion into the Agency’s exploration and science mission needs, proving the capabilities needed by the greater aerospace community, and developing the Nation’s innovation economy. Prior [...]
Think global, act local: challenges for autonomy in a tropical riverine system
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dr. Dan Stilwell is a Professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia. He earned a PhD in electrical engineering at Johns Hopkins University in 1999, the MS from Virginia Tech in 1993, and the BS from the University of Massachusetts in 1991. His [...]
Computational Modelling and Enhancement of Human Skill: Toward Effective Human-Machine Collaborative Systems
Event Location: 1305 Newell-Simon HallBio: Gregory D. Hager is a Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and the Deputy Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Computer Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology. His research interests include time-series analysis of image data, image-guided robotics, medical applications of image analysis and robotics, [...]
Robots in Play: Human-Robot Interaction Schemes for Pediatric Therapy
Event Location: 1305 Newell-Simon HallBio: Ayanna Howard is the Motorola Foundation Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She received her B.S. from Brown University, her M.S.E.E. from the University of Southern California, and her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1999. [...]
Recognizing objects using model-based statistics
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Deva Ramanan is an associate professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Irvine. Prior to joining UCI, he was a Research Assistant Professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago. He received his B.S. in computer engineering from the University of Delaware in 2000, graduating summa cum laude. [...]
Visual Material Recognition
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Ko Nishino is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Drexel University. He received a B.E. and an M.E. in Information and Communication Engineering in 1997 and 1999, respectively, and a PhD in Computer Science in 2002, all from The University of Tokyo. Before joining Drexel University in [...]
Special Joint RI/VASC Seminar
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Shoji TOMINAGA is a professor at Graduate School of Advanced Integration Science, Chiba University. His research interests include color imaging, illuminant estimation, multispectral image analysis, and color image rendering. He is an editorial board member of Color Research and Application, an associate editor of the Journal of Electronic Imaging, an executive [...]
Navigation, Guidance, and Adaptive Control Innovations for Unmanned Aircraft
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Eric N. Johnson (eric.johnson@ae.gatech.edu) is the Lockheed Martin Associate Professor of Avionics Integration, Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Tech. He received a B.S. degree from University of Washington, M.S. degrees from MIT and The George Washington University, and a Ph.D. from Georgia Tech, all in Aerospace Engineering. He also [...]
Robots that Need to Mislead: Biologically-inspired Machine Deception
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Ronald C. Arkin is Regents' Professor and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. He served as STINT visiting Professor at KTH in Stockholm, Sabbatical Chair at the Sony IDL in Tokyo, and the Robotics and AI Group at LAAS/CNRS in Toulouse. Dr. Arkin's research interests [...]
Creating Robots for Ultra-minimally Invasive Surgery
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Pierre E. Dupont is Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Bioengineering and holder of the Edward P. Marram Chair at Boston Children’s Hospital. His academic appointments include Visiting Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. His research group develops robotic instrumentation and imaging technology for [...]