RI Seminar
Ruzena Bajcsy
Professor
University of California Berkeley

Active Perception and What Comes After

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dr. Ruzena Bajcsy (“buy chee”) was appointed Director of CITRIS and professor of EECS department at the University of California, Berkeley on November 1, 2001. Prior to coming to Berkeley, she was Assistant Director of the Computer Information Science and Engineering Directorate (CISE) between December 1, 1998 and September 1, 2001. [...]

RI Seminar
Katsu Yamane
University of Tokyo

Inheriting and Evolving the Infrastructure for Systems and Devices of Humanoid and Home Assistance

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Masayuki Inaba is a Professor at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo. He received B.S of Mechanical Engineering in 1981, M.S and Dr. Degrees of Information Engineering from The University of Tokyo in 1983 and 1986 respectively. He was appointed as a lecturer in [...]

RI Seminar
Steven Chase
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and Department of Biomedical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University

Cognitive factors in neural prosthetic control

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Steven Chase is an Assistant Professor jointly appointed in the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his BS in Applied Physics from Caltech in ‘97, his MS in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley in ‘99, and his PhD [...]

RI Seminar
David Pynadath
USC

Modeling Social Reasoning through Recursive, Decision-Theoretic Planning

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: David Pynadath is a Research Scientist at the Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California. His research has focused on developing an artificial intelligence framework that can model, simulate, and analyze social interaction, with special emphasis on the methods by which agents, both human and software, form and [...]

RI Seminar
Andy Ruina
Mechanical Engineering, Cornell

Gliders, bicycles and walking robots

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Andy Ruina is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University where he has been, but for various leaves, since the afternoon of Monday August 25, 1980. He teaches various basic mechanics and math classes. His early research was on rock friction and sliding instability, with the aim of increasing understanding [...]

RI Seminar
Damion Shelton
CTO, threeRivers 3D Inc.

Bootstrapping a startup: 3D scanning for fun and profit (?)

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Damion Shelton is CTO of threeRivers 3D, a Pittsburgh-based 3D imaging company which he co-founded in 2007 after receiving a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University. At threeRivers 3D he is responsible for the software and embedded systems development for threeRivers 3D’s off-the-shelf and custom line of 3D scanners. His [...]

RI Seminar
Rodney Brooks
Chairman and CTO
Rethink Robotics, Inc.

A New Class of Industrial Robot

Event Location: UC McConomyBio: Rodney Brooks is the Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus) at MIT. He is a robotics entrepreneur and Founder, Chairman and CTO of Rethink Robotics (formerly Heartland Robotics). He is also a Founder, former Board Member (1990 - 2011) and former CTO (1990 - 2008) of iRobot Corp (Nasdaq: IRBT). Dr. Brooks [...]

RI Seminar
Irfan Essa
Georgia Tech
School of Interactive Computing
GVU and RIM @ GT Centers

Video Analysis and Enhancement: Video Stabilization and Rolling Shutter Removal on YouTube

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Irfan Essa is a Professor in the School of Interactive Computing (iC) of the College of Computing (CoC), and Adjunct Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (GA Tech), in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He is also the Director of Off-Campus Initiatives for the College of [...]

RI Seminar
Ren Ng, Ph.D.
Founder & Executive Chairman, Lytro

Lytro – Light Field Cameras, Entrepreneurship and the Future of Photography

Event Location: Disney Research Pittsburgh, CIC Building, Lower Level, Tomorrowland Conference RoomBio: Ren Ng is the founder of Lytro, and developed the underlying technology during graduate school. Ren's Ph.D. research on light field technology won the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award and Stanford University’s Arthur Samuel Award. Ren's leadership of Lytro has also earned him a [...]