RI Seminar

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: The CMDragons research team is advised by Manuela Veloso, Herbert A. Simon Professor in CSD and courtesy in RI. The other members of the team are Joydeep Biswas (team leader, RI PhD student), Juan Pablo Mendoza (RI PhD student), Danny Zhu (CSD PhD student), Benjamin Choi (CSD junior), and Alex Etling [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Sangbae Kim has served as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT since 2009. As the director of the Biomimetic Robotics Laboratory, Sangbae has been developing bio-inspired robotic design processes. His design approaches focus on the design principles from complex biological systems from understanding the difference between biological and engineering [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Red Whittaker is the Fredkin professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He has developed dozens of technologies and robots, breaking new ground in autonomous vehicles, field robotics, space exploration, mining and agriculture. Whittaker developed the robots that cleaned up [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Pieter Abbeel received a BS/MS in Electrical Engineering from KU Leuven (Belgium) and received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2008. He joined the faculty at UC Berkeley in Fall 2008, with an appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. He has won various [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Koushil Sreenath is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and a courtesy Assistant Professor of Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interest lies at the intersection of highly dynamic robotics and applied nonlinear control. His work on dynamic legged locomotion on the bipedal robot MABEL was featured on The [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: It is the first company of its kind that is making Robots for all four operational domains of Land, Air, Water and Space. This Includes Robotic Boats, mini drones, bomb disposal robots and Space robots. Bomb disposal robot developed by Omnipresent was displayed by DRDO at the Def Expo 12 (India’s [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: D.A. Forsyth is professor of Computer Science in the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He holds BS and MS degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand, and a DPhil from Balliol College, Oxford. He is currently editor in chief of IEEE TPAMI.Abstract: Vision is special, because it can be used to predict [...]

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Dr. Ron Alterovitz is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He leads the Computational Robotics Research Group which investigates new algorithms to enable robots to safely and autonomously complete novel tasks in clinical and home environments. Prior to joining UNC-Chapel Hill in [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Hod Lipson is an Associate Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Computing & Information Science at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. He directs the Creative Machines Lab, which focuses on novel ways for automatic design, fabrication and adaptation of virtual and physical machines. He has led work in areas such [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Chieko Asakawa is an IBM Fellow and Chief Technology Officer for Accessibility Research and Technology at IBM Research. Her contributions to Web accessibility include IBM Home Page Reader, one of the first voice browsers for the visually impaired, the aDesigner tool for accessibility evaluation, ai-browser for multimedia content accessibility, and then [...]