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 [...]

RI Seminar
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 [...]

RI Seminar
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. [...]

RI Seminar
Jeff Cohn
Professor of Psychology
University of Pittsburgh

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 [...]

RI Seminar
Sing Bing Kang
Principal Researcher
Microsoft Corporation

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 [...]

RI Seminar
Ronald S. Fearing
Professor
Dept. of EECS, UC Berkeley

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 [...]

RI Seminar
Hong Z. Tan
Associate Professor
Haptic Interface Research Laboratory, Purdue University

Does Touch Perform Fourier Analysis? – A Frequency-Domain Analysis of Haptic Gratings

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 [...]

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Andrew B. Schwartz
Professor
University of Pittsburgh

Useful signals from motor cortex

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 [...]