RI Seminar
Nathan Martin
CEO
Deeplocal

This Is Gutter Tech

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 [...]

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Edwin Olson
Assistant Professor
University of Michigan

Winning the MAGIC 2010 Autonomous Robotics Competition

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 [...]

RI Seminar
Jose Gomez-Marquez
Program Director, Innovations in International Health Initiative
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nurturing Appropriate Biomedical Innovation in for Developing Countries through the use of MEDIK kits

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 [...]

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Chris Urmson
Tech Lead, Chauffeur team
Carnegie Mellon University

Realizing Self-Driving Vehicles

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 [...]

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Andre Platzer
Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon University

Logical Analysis of Hybrid Systems

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 [...]

RI Seminar
Ed Durfee
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
University of Michigan

Don’t Always Ask, Don’t Always Tell: Judicious Mutual Modeling in Cooperative Multiagent Systems

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, [...]

RI Seminar
Pedro Szekely
Project Leader, Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California

STaC: Automated Adaptation of Strategic Guidance in Multiagent Coordination

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. [...]

RI Seminar
Cynthia Breazeal
Associate Professor, Media Arts and Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The social side of personal robots

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 [...]

RI Seminar
Kristen Grauman
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at Austin

Steering Human Insight for Large-Scale Visual Learning

Event Location: 1305 Newell Simon HallBio: Kristen Grauman is a Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research in computer vision and machine learning focuses on visual search and object recognition. Before joining UT-Austin in 2007, she received her Ph.D. in the EECS [...]

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James O'Brien
Associate Professor, Computer Science
UC Berkeley

Sparse Matrix Factorization, Mesh Modification, and Real-Time FEM Simulation

Event Location: 1305 Newell Simon HallBio: James F. O'Brien is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His primary area of interest is Computer Animation, with an emphasis on generating realistic motion using physically based simulation and motion capture techniques. He has authored numerous papers on these topics. In addition [...]