RI Seminar

Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: Michael Beetz is a professor for Computer Science at the Department of Informatics of the Technische Universität Muenchen and heads the Intelligent Autonomous Systems group. He is vice coordinator of the German national cluster of excellence CoTeSys (Cognition for Technical Systems) where he is also co-coordinator of the research area “Knowledge [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Emma Brunskill is an an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. She was previously a NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. She completed her PhD in Computer Science at MIT on a NSF Graduate Fellowship and her masters in Neuroscience at [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Kayvon Fatahalian is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on the design of programming abstractions and efficient parallel systems for computer-intensive applications such as interactive computer graphics.Abstract: In the past fifteen years the capabilities of real-time graphics systems have increased rapidly as [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Ariel Procaccia is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include the (pairwise) intersections of AI, social choice, and game theory. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and was subsequently a postdoc at Microsoft and Harvard. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]