RI Seminar
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Use of Active Appearance Models for Analysis and Synthesis of Naturally Occurring Behavior
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 [...]
Sketching Reality: Converting 2D sketches to 3D realistic models
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 [...]
Biomimetic Millirobots
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 [...]