RI Seminar
Gregory D. Hager
Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and the Deputy Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Computer Integr
Johns Hopkins University

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, [...]

RI Seminar
Ayanna Howard
Motorola Foundation Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chair, Robotics PhD Program
Georgia Tech

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. [...]

RI Seminar
Deva Ramanan
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of California at Irvine

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. [...]

RI Seminar
Ko Nishino
Associate Professor
Dept. of Computer Science, College of Engineering, Drexel University

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 [...]

RI Seminar
Shoji Tominaga
Chiba University, Japan

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 [...]

RI Seminar
Eric N. Johnson
Lockheed Martin Associate Professor of Avionics Integration
Georgia Institute of Technology

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 [...]

RI Seminar
Ronald C. Arkin
Professor, College of Computing
Georgia Tech

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 [...]

RI Seminar
Pierre E. Dupont
Boston Children Hospital, Harvard Medical School

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 [...]

RI Seminar
Joydeep Biswas
RI PhD student
Carnegie Mellon University

CMDragons’13: RoboCup Small-Size Robot Soccer Team

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 [...]

RI Seminar
Sangbae Kim
Assistant Professor
MIT

Learning from biology : actuation, structure and control of the MIT cheetah robot

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 [...]