RI Seminar

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Derek Hoiem is a new assistant professor at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Derek researches object recognition, segmentation, 3d reconstruction from images, and other aspects of computer vision that are related to scene understanding. He recently (2007) graduated from the Robotics Institute under the tutelage of Alyosha Efros and Martial [...]

Event Location: 1305 NSHBio: Dr. Weber is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also a faculty member in the Department of Bioengineering and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition. Dr. Weber received a B.S. (’94) in Biomedical Engineering from the Milwaukee [...]

Event Location: 1305 NSHBio: Alberto Elfes has an E.Eng. degree in Electronics Engineering (1975) and an M.Sc. in Computer Science (1980), both from the Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA), Brazil, and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (1989) from Carnegie-Mellon University. He is the author of the Occupancy Grid and Inference Grid frameworks, [...]

Event Location: Newell Simon Hall

Event Location: Mauldin Auditorium (NSH 1305)Bio: Simon Lucey is an Assistant Research Professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, and has been a faculty member there since October 2005. Before that he was a Post-Doc in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Lucey’s research interests are in [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dr. Wei-Min Shen is the Director of Polymorphic Robotics Laboratory, an Associate Director of the Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems, and a Research Associate Professor in Computer Science at University of Southern California. He received his Ph.D. under Nobel Laureate Professor Herbert A. Simon from Carnegie Mellon University in 1989. [...]

Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: David Hsu is currently an associate professor of computer science at the National University of Singapore and a member of NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences & Engineering (NGS). His research spans robotics, computational biology, and geometric computation. His current interest includes robot motion planning under uncertainty. He received B.Sc. in [...]

Event Location: Mauldin Auditorium (NSH 1305)Bio: Holly Yanco is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where she heads the Robotics Lab. Her research interests include human-robot interaction, multi-touch computing, and assistive technology. Dr. Yanco’s research is currently funded by ARL, NSF, NIST, and Microsoft; she received a [...]