RI Seminar

Event Location: Mauldin Auditorium (NSH 1305)Bio: Jeffrey Cohn is Professor of Psychology, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, director of the Affect Analysis Group at the University of Pittsburgh, and Adjunct Faculty at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. He earned his PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and completed his Clinical [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Sing Bing Kang received his Ph.D. in robotics from CMU in 1994. He is Principal Researcher at Microsoft Corporation and adjunct faculty member of the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. His interests are image-based modeling as well as image and video enhancement. Sing Bing has co-edited two books in [...]

Event Location: Mauldin Auditorium (NSH 1305)Bio: Ronald Fearing is a professor in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at Univ. of California, Berkeley, which he joined in Jan. 1988. He was Vice-Chair for Undergraduate Matters from 2000-2006. His current research interests are in micro robotics, including flying and crawling micro-robots, parallel nanograsping (gecko [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Hong Z. Tan is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering with courtesy appointments in mechanical engineering and psychological sciences at Purdue University. Her research of haptic human-machine interfaces focuses on haptic perception and its implications for engineering applications. She received her Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dr. Schwartz received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1984 with a thesis entitled "Activity in the Deep Cerebellar Nuclei During Normal and Perturbed Locomotion". He then went on to a postdoctoral fellowship at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where he worked with Dr. Apostolos Georgopoulos, who was [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dr. Azim Eskandarian is a Professor of Engineering and Applied Science at The George Washington University (GW). He has been the founding director of the Center for Intelligent Systems Research (CISR) since 1996 and the director of the “Transportation Safety and Security” program since 2002, which is one of GW’s competitively [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Karl Iagnemma is a principal research scientist in the Mechanical Engineering department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and director of the Robotic Mobility Group. He holds a B.S. from the University of Michigan, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from MIT, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow. He [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Devin Balkcom is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College. Balkcom's primary research interest is in robotic manipulation, focusing on the manipulation of flexible materials including cloth, paper, and string. Balkcom received his Ph.D. in 2004 from the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute, advised by Matthew T. Mason.Abstract: Theory and [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Victor Lesser received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 1973. He is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Multi-Agent Systems Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts. His major research focus is on the control and organization of complex AI systems. He has [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Subbarao Kambhampati is a professor of computer science and engineering at Arizona State University, where he directs the Yochan research group. His research and teaching interests are broadly split between automated planning and intelligent information integration. Kambhampati is the recipient of an NSF Research Initiation Award (1992), an NSF Young Investigator [...]