VASC Seminar

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Andrew Gallagher is a Visiting Research Scientist at Cornell University's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, beginning in June 2012. Andrew earned the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2009, advised by Prof. Tsuhan Chen. Before that, Andrew received an M.S. degree from Rochester Institute [...]

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Ivan Laptev is a full-time researcher in the WILLOW team at INRIA Paris and Ecole Normale Superieure. He has received his PhD in Computer Science from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in 2004 and his Master of Science degree from the same institute in 1997. He has been a research [...]

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Andreas Geiger studied computer science and mathematics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany. During his studies he spent 6 months at EPFL (working with Pascal Fua and Vincent Lepetit) and 6 months at MIT (working with Raquel Urtasun and Trevor Darrell). Currently he is a 4th year doctoral candidate [...]

Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: Rahul Sukthankar is a scientist at Google Research and an adjunct research professor in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon. He was previously a senior principal researcher at Intel Labs (2003-2011), a senior research scientist at HP/Compaq Labs (2000-2003) and research scientist at Just Research (1997-2000). Rahul received his Ph.D. in Robotics from [...]

Bio: Nima Razavi is currently a post-doctoral researcher in Luc van Gool’s lab at ETH Zurich where he finished his PhD in 2012. He holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science from ETH Zurich and a B.Sc. in computer engineering from Sharif University of Technology. His research interests are in Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Neuroscience [...]

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Alper Ayvaci received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California, Los Angeles in August, 2012 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Stefano Soatto. He is currently a postdoctoral scholar at the same institute. His general research interests are in computer vision and applications of geometry and machine learning in [...]

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Lexing Xie is Senior Lecturer in the Research School of Computer Science at the Australian National University. She was with IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York from 2005 to 2010, and adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University 2007-2009. She received B.S. from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and M.S. and [...]

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Stephen Nuske is a project scientist in the Field Robotics Center at Carnegie Mellon University. He originally joined CMU as a PostDoc in 2008 after completing his PhD at the University of Queensland and the Commonwealth Science and Industry Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia.Abstract: Maps can store and convey many valuable attributes, [...]