RI Seminar

Event Location: 1305 NSHBio: Hod Lipson is an Associate Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Computing & Information Science at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. He directs the Computational Synthesis group, which focuses on novel ways for automatic design, fabrication and adaptation of virtual and physical machines. He has led work in areas such [...]

Event Location: 1305 NSHBio: Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson received a Bachelor's degree in philosophy and physics from St. John's College, Maryland, in 1974, a certificate in ethnographic film making in 1976, and an M.A. in Linguistics from Indiana University in 1978. From 1982-1987 he was an NIH pre-doctoral fellow at Haskins Laboratories (Connecticut) investigating "the organization and [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Randal W. Beard received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, in 1991, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1993, the M.S. degree in mathematics in 1994, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 1995, all from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y. [...]

Event Location: 1305 NSHBio: Bilge Mutlu is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on designing social behavior for socially interactive systems—particularly, humanlike robots—in an integrated, interdisciplinary process in which he combines knowledge and methods from cognitive, social, computer science, and design, and understanding the cognitive, social, [...]

Event Location: 1305 NSHBio: Naomi Ehrich Leonard is the Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and associated faculty member of the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University where she has been since 1994. Her research is in nonlinear control and dynamics with current interests in cooperative control for multi-agent [...]

Event Location: 1305 NSHBio: Marjorie Skubic received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University, where she specialized in distributed telerobotics and robot programming by demonstration. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Missouri-Columbia with a joint appointment in Computer Science. Dr. Skubic has [...]

Event Location: 1305 NSHBio: Dr. Iain Couzin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Associated Faculty in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University since 2007. Before joining the faculty at Princeton he was Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, and Junior [...]

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 [...]