RI Seminar

Event Location: 1305 Newell Simon HallBio: Marc Raibert is President of Boston Dynamics, a company that develops some of the world's most sophisticated dynamic robots, including BigDog, Petman, Legged Squad Support System (LS3) and others. These robots combine advanced locomotion control systems with innovative mechanical designs. They are specialized for travel on rough terrain. Before [...]

Event Location: 1305 Newell Simon HallBio: Russell H. Taylor received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford in 1976. He joined IBM Research in 1976, where he developed the AML robot language and managed the Automation Technology Department and (later) the Computer-Assisted Surgery Group before moving in 1995 to Johns Hopkins, where he is a [...]

Event Location: 1305 Newell-Simon HallBio: Nathan Martin is CEO of Deeplocal Inc. Prior to founding Deeplocal in 2006, Nathan was a researcher and artist-in-residence at Carnegie Mellon University where he led an interdisciplinary team in the development of a collaborative online mapping toolkit. As a founding member of both an art group and a touring [...]

Event Location: 1305 Newell Simon HallBio: Edwin Olson is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan with research interests in robot autonomy, perception, and learning. In 2010, he led Team Michigan to first place in the MAGIC 2010 robotics competition. He received his PhD, M.Eng., and B.S. from MIT, where he was also a [...]

Event Location: 1305 Newell Simon HallBio: Jose Gomez-Marquez is the program director for the Innovations in International Health initiative at MIT. Among the projects under his technology practice at IIH is the Aerovax Drug Delivery System, a device for mass delivery of inhalable drugs and vaccines to remote populations. The rest of his IIH invention [...]

Event Location: GHC 4401 Rashid AuditoriumBio: Chris Urmson is the Tech Lead of the Chauffeur team and an assistant research professor at Carnegie Mellon University (on leave). Chris was the Director of Technology for Tartan Racing, the winner of the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. He earned his PhD in 2005 from the Robotics Institute and [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: André Platzer is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon. Dr. Platzer developed the theory, practice, and applications of logical analysis and verification of hybrid systems, and he proved the very first completeness theorem for hybrid systems. He introduced compositional verification techniques and methods that can verify [...]

Event Location: 1305 Newell Simon HallBio: Ed Durfee is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, and of Information, at the University of Michigan, where he has served on the faculty for over 20 years. His research focuses on developing representations and algorithms for multiagent planning, scheduling, and coordination, with applications that include cooperative robotics, [...]

Event Location: 1305 Newell Simon HallBio: Dr. Pedro Szekely is a Project Leader in USC/ISI and a Research Assistant Professor in USC’s Computer Science Department. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1982 and 1987. Pedro has worked on user interfaces, multi-agent systems, and planning and scheduling. [...]

Event Location: 1305 Newell Simon HallBio: Dr. Cynthia Breazeal is an Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she founded and directs the Personal Robots Group at the Media Lab. She is a pioneer of social robotics and Human Robot Interaction. She has authored the book “Designing Sociable [...]