RI Seminar
Dr. Fawzi Nashashibi
Senior Researcher and Program Manager
IMARA research Team at INRIA

Towards true autonomous mobility services in cities – A European view through INRIA experience

Event Location: 1305 Newell Simon HallBio: Fawzi Nashashibi, 45 years, is a senior researcher and the Program Manager of IMARA research Team at INRIA since January 2011. He has been senior researcher in the robotics centre of the École des Mines de Paris (Mines ParisTech) since 1994 and is an R&D engineer and a project [...]

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Steven Dow
Assistant Professor
HCI Institute, CMU

How Prototyping Practices Affect Design Results

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Steven is an Assistant Professor at the HCI Institute at Carnegie Mellon University where he researches human-computer interaction, creative problem-solving, prototyping practices, and crowdsourcing methods. He is recipient of Stanford's Postdoctoral Research Award and co-recipient of a Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Grant. He received an MS and PhD in Human-Centered [...]

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Daphne Koller
Rajeev Motwani Professor
Stanford

Learning Richly Structured Representations From Weakly Annotated Data

Event Location: McConomy Auditorium, First Floor University CenterBio: Daphne Koller is the Rajeev Motwani Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. Her main research interest is in developing and using machine learning and probabilistic methods to model and analyze complex domains. Her current research projects include models in computational biology, computational medicine, and [...]

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Guido Bugmann
Associate Professor
University of Plymouth UK

A deep spiking network model for fast stimulus-response association learning

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Guido Bugmann is an associate professor (Reader) in Intelligent Systems at the University of Plymouth's School of Computing and Mathematics where he develops human-robot dialogue systems, vision-based navigation systems for wheeled and humanoid robots, and investigates computational properties of biological vision and decision making. He previously worked at the Swiss Federal [...]

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Russ Tedrake
Associate Professor
MIT

Robust motion planning for walking robots and robotic birds

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Russ is the X Consortium Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the MIT Jerome Saltzer Award for undergraduate teaching, the DARPA Young Faculty [...]

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Ronald Baecker
Professor
University of Toronto

Technology in Support of Graceful Aging

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Ron Baecker is Professor of Computer Science, Bell Chair in Human-Computer Interaction, co-founder of the Dynamic Graphics Project, founder of the Knowledge Media Design Institute, and founder and director of the Technologies for Aging Gracefully lab (TAGlab) at the University of Toronto. He is also Affiliate Scientist with theKunin-Lunenfeld Applied Research [...]

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Eitan Grinspun
Associate Professor
Columbia

From Sorcery to Science: how Hollywood Physics impacts the Sciences

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Eitan Grinspun is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New York. He was Professeur d'Université Invité at l'Université Pierre et Marie Curie in 2009, a Research Scientist at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences from 2003-2004, and a graduate student at the California Institute of [...]

RI Seminar
Mike Gleicher
Professor
University of Wisconsin

From Art and Perception to Visualization and Video Processing

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Michael Gleicher is a Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Prof. Gleicher is founder and leader of the Department's Computer Graphics group. His research interests include visualization, image and video processing tools, and character animation techniques for films and games. Prior to joining the [...]

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Lydia Kavraki
Professor
Rice University

Motion Planning for Physical Systems

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Lydia E. Kavraki is the Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Bioengineering at Rice University. Kavraki received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University. Her research contributions are in the area of robotics (robot motion planning, hybrid systems, formal methods in robotics, assembly planning, micromanipulation, and flexible [...]

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Ian Lane Davis
Rockstar Games New England

CANCELED From Robograd to Rockstar™: Lessons in Transforming from a Naive Academic to a Stressed Out Entrepreneur (& Why You’d Have To Be Insane to Do It)

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: In 1996, Dr. Davis earned his PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon and set out to work on AI and virtual characters in video games. After working at Activision from 1996 to 1999 as Technical Director, Dr. Davis founded Mad Doc Software, and independent game developer for PCs and gaming consoles. [...]