RI Seminar

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]