VASC Seminar

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: (Talk 1) Kris Kitani is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Robotics Institute. He specializes in the area of vision-based human activity analysis. (Talk 2) Abhinav Shrivastava is a PhD student in Robotics Institute (CMU) working with Alyosha Efros, Abhinav Gupta and Martial Hebert. Before joining PhD, he finished his Masters [...]

Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: Debadeepta Dey is a 3rd year Phd student in The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University advised by Prof J. Andrew Bagnell. From 2007-2010 he was research staff in Prof. Sanjiv Singh's group at the Field Robotics Center. He has worked on vision-based sense-and-avoid for UAVs, automated drilling for mining, robotics in [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Petia Georgieva is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electronics Telecommunications and Informatics, University of Aveiro, Portugal and the Head of Signal Processing Lab of the Institute of Electrical Engineering and Telematics of Aveiro (IEETA). She is a visiting faculty in the framework of the program CMU-Portugal faculty exchange. Her [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Laszlo Attila Jeni is a research scientist at the Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. The main body of his work concentrates on machine learning for affective behavior analysis and its applications, including 3D deformable face registration, facial expression analysis and human-machine interaction. At present most of his research [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Ashutosh Saxena is an assistant professor in computer science department at Cornell University. His research interests include machine learning and robotics perception, especially in the domain of personal robots. He received his MS in 2006 and Ph.D. in 2009 from Stanford University, and his B.Tech. in 2004 from Indian Institute of [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: David Thompson received a PhD from the Robotics Institute, where he participated in the FRC Life in the Atacama and Science Autonomy projects. These days he is a research technologist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. He works in the Machine Learning and Instrument Autonomy group, and focuses [...]

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dov Katz is a postdoctoral fellow with the National Robotics Engineering Center at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include autonomous manipulation, computer vision, and machine learning. He received his MS in 2008 and Ph.D. in 2011 from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and his BS in 2004 from Tel-Aviv University, [...]

Bio: C. Lawrence Zitnick received the PhD degree in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2003. His thesis focused on a maximum entropy approach to efficient inference. Previously, his work centered on stereo vision, including the development of a commercial portable 3D camera. Currently, he is a senior researcher at the Interactive Visual Media group [...]

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 [...]