RI Seminar
Alberto Elfes
Principal Member of Technical Staff
JPL

Autonomous Aerobots for Planetary Exploration

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, [...]

RI Seminar
Simon Lucey
Assistant Research Professor
The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Relaxation Methods in Vision: Convex or just plain vexing?

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 [...]

RI Seminar
Wei-Min Shen
Director
Polymorphic Robotics Lab, USC/ISI

Self-Reconfigurable Robots and Digital Hormones

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. [...]

RI Seminar
David Hsu
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore

Scaling Up POMDP Solvers for Robot Motion Planning Under Uncertainty

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 [...]

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Holly Yanco
Associate Professor
Computer Science Dept, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Designing for Human-Robot Interaction

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 [...]

RI Seminar
Emmanuel Collins
Professor
Florida A&M University-Florida State University

Motion Planning with Dynamic Models

Event Location: Mauldin Auditorium (NSH 1305)Bio: Emmanuel G. Collins, Jr. received the Ph.D. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Purdue University in 1987. He worked for seven years in the Controls Technology Group at Harris Corporation, Melbourne, FL before joining the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Florida A&M University – Florida State University College [...]

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Brian Scassellati
Associate Professor
Yale University

Three ways HRI teaches us about ourselves

Event Location: Mauldin Auditorium (NSH 1305)Bio: Brian Scassellati is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Yale University. Using computational modeling and socially interactive robots, his research evaluates models of how infants acquire social skills and assists in the diagnosis and quantification of disorders of social development (such as autism). Dr. Scassellati received his Ph.D. [...]