RI Seminar
Jim Rehg
Professor
School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology

Temporal Causality for Visual Event Analysis

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Jim Rehg is a Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is co-Director of the Computational Perception Lab and Associate Director of Research in the Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines. He received his Ph.D. from CMU in 1995 and worked at the Cambridge [...]

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Mark R. Cutkosky
Professor in Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University

Perching on Walls: toward hybrid aerial/scansorial robotics

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Mark Cutkosky (Ph.D. CMU 1985) is a Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. He formerly was a lecturer at CMU and a design engineer at ALCOA. He has lead numerous projects in dexterous manipulation, haptics, bio-inspired robotics and design collaboration. He has graduated over 30 Ph.D. students in these areas, [...]

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Nicholas Roy
Associate Professor
Dept. of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Planning and Learning in Information Space

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Nicholas Roy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT. He received his Ph. D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2003. His research interests include autonomous [...]

RI Seminar
Fernando De la Torre
Assistant Research Professor
The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Learning Components for Human Sensing

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Fernando De la Torre received his B.Sc. degree in Telecommunications (1994), M.Sc. (1996), and Ph. D. (2002) degrees in Electronic Engineering from La Salle School of Engineering in Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain. In 1997 and 2000 he was an Assistant and Associate Professor in the Department of Communications and Signal [...]

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Todd Murphey
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Northwestern University

Choreography and Control for Robotic Systems

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Todd Murphey received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of Arizona and a Ph.D. in Control and Dynamical Systems from the California Institute of Technology. He was a postdoctoral scholar at Northwestern University for a year, after which he worked for the Aerospace Corporation in the Electro-Mechanical Control Department. [...]

RI Seminar
Yu Sun
Associate Professor in the Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
University of Toronto

Mechanical Manipulation and Characterization of Biological Cells: A MEMS and Micro-Nanorobotics Approach

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Yu Sun is an associate professor in the Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, with joint appointments in the Inst. of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering and the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto (UofT). He is a McLean Senior Fellow at UofT and the Canada Research [...]

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Satyandra K. Gupta
Professor, Maryland Robotics Center, Mechanical Engineering Department and Institute for Systems Research
University of Maryland

Towards Simulation-Based Computational Synthesis of Robot Behaviors and Structures

Event Location: 1305 Newell-Simon HallBio: Dr. Satyandra K. Gupta is a Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is also director of the Maryland Robotics Center. Prior to joining the University of Maryland, he was a Research Scientist in the Robotics Institute at [...]

RI Seminar
Eric Singer
Founder and Director
LEMUR

Robots, Slime, Propane, and Other Ways to Make Strange Musical Instruments

Event Location: 1305 Newell Simon HallBio: Eric Singer is a musician, artist, engineer and programmer and the Founder and Director of LEMUR. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon; a Diploma in Music Synthesis (Magna Cum Laude) from Berklee College of Music; and an MS in Computer Science from New York University. [...]

RI Seminar
Paul Oh
Associate Department Head, Mechanical Engineering
Drexel University

Robotics: Pathways to Transformative Research

Bio: Prof. Paul Oh is the Associate Department Head at Drexel's Mechanical Engineering Department. He received mechanical engineering degrees from McGill (B.Eng 1989), Seoul National (M.Sc 1992), and Columbia (PhD 1999). Honors include faculty fellowships at NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (2002), Naval Research Lab (2003), the NSF CAREER award (2004), the SAE Ralph Teetor Award [...]

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Tara Estlin
Senior Member, Artificial Intelligence Group
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

AEGIS Automated Targeting for the Mars Exploration Rover Mission

Bio: Dr. Estlin is a senior member of the Artificial Intelligence Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She has over 10 years of experience in developing spacecraft autonomy software. A primary goal of these efforts is to support onboard sequencing and opportunistic science handling for future rover missions. She is currently leading the AEGIS Project, [...]