RI Seminar
Jonathan Clark
Assistant Professor
FAMU/FSU College of Engineering

Design of Dynamic Multi-Modal Legged Locomotors

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Jonathan Clark received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University and his MS and PhD. from Stanford University where he worked on the design of dynamic multi-legged running systems, including the Sprawl family of robots. From 2004-2007 he worked as an IC Postdoctoral Fellow on climbing robots at the [...]

RI Seminar
Seth Teller
Professor
MIT CSAIL

Prospective, Intermittently-Assisted Autonomous Mobile Manipulation

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Seth Teller is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and a Principal Investigator in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), at MIT. He received his B.A. in Physics from Wesleyan, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley. Teller's research interests [...]

RI Seminar
Dieter Fox
Associate Professor
University of Washington

Grounding Natural Language in Robot Control Systems

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dieter Fox is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, where he heads the UW Robotics and State Estimation Lab. From 2009 to 2011, he was also Director of the Intel Research Labs Seattle. He currently serves as the academic PI of [...]

RI Seminar
Henry Schneiderman
PittPatt

The Journey from Algorithm to Product

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dr. Henry Schneiderman co-founded and served as CEO of Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition (PittPatt), a face recognition technology company spun off from Carnegie Mellon in 2004 and acquired by Google in 2011. At Google, he is involved in a variety of computer vision related products and services. In particular, he has helped [...]

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 [...]