RI Seminar
Vijay S. Gorantla
Associate Professor of Surgery
University of Pittsburgh

Reconstructive Transplantation – Evolution, Experience and Emerging Insights

Event Location: NSH3305Bio: Dr. Gorantla is Associate Professor of Surgery and Administrative Medical Director of the Pittsburgh Reconstructive Transplant Program in the Division of Plastic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Gorantla currently oversees, administers, directs and coordinates research and clinical programs in clinical hand, face and vascularizaed composite transplantation at UPMC, the University [...]

PhD Thesis Defense
Mihail N. Pivtoraiko
Carnegie Mellon University

Differentially Constrained Motion Planning with State Lattice Motion Primitives

Event Location: GHC 4405Abstract: Robot motion planning with differential constraints has received a great deal of attention in the last few decades, yet it still remains a challenging problem. Among a number of reasons, three stand out. First, the differential constraints that most physical robots exhibit render the coupling between the control and state spaces [...]

RI Seminar
Steven M. LaValle
University of Illinois

Manipulating Wild Bodies Using Gentle Guidance

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Steven M. LaValle is Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois in 1995. From 1995-1997 he was a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. [...]

VASC Seminar
Erik Learned-Miller
Associate Professor
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Adaptive Image Similarity: The Sharpening Match

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Erik G. Learned-Miller (previously Erik G. Miller) is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he joined the faculty in 2004. His research focusses on computer vision and machine learning. He spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, in [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Stephen Nuske
Field Robotics Center

Automated Estimation of Grapevine Yield and Canopy Size for Precision Vineyard Management

Event Location: GHC2109Bio: Stephen is a Project Scientist at the Robotics Institute and was a PostDoc at the RI from 2008-2010. Prior to arriving at the RI he completed his PhD in Australia conducting the research jointly at the Commonwealth Science and Industry Research Organisation and the University of Queensland. He has worked on a [...]

RI Seminar
Raffaello D’Andrea
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich

Robustness by Necessity: Zero-Downtime Demos, Competitions, and Live Performances

Event Location: NSH3305Bio: Raffaello D'Andrea is professor of Dynamic Systems and Control at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. He also is technical co-founder and chief technical advisor for Kiva Systems, a company that develops adaptive and self-configuring warehouse automation systems using hundreds of networked, mobile robots. He was the faculty advisor and [...]

VASC Seminar
Benjamin Sapp
PhD Student
University of Pennsylvania

Efficient Human Pose Estimation with Data-Dependent Cliques

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Ben Sapp is Ph.D. candidate in Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, advised by Ben Taskar.  His work uses machine learning to tackle computer vision problems, with a focus on graphical models to solve human pose estimation in single 2-D images or video - specifically, studying how to [...]

RI Seminar
Ian Davis
Rockstar New England

From Robograd to Rockstar™: Lessons in Transforming from a Naive Academic to a Stressed Out Entrepreneur (& Why You’d Have To Be Insane to Do It)

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: In 1996, Dr. Davis earned his PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon and set out to work on AI and virtual characters in video games. After working at Activision from 1996 to 1999 as Technical Director, Dr. Davis founded Mad Doc Software, and independent game developer for PCs and gaming consoles. [...]

VASC Seminar
Mikel Rodriguez
Researcher
MITRE

Data-Driven Crowd Analysis in Videos

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Mikel Rodriguez is a researcher at MITRE. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the INRIA Willow team at the Département d'Informatique of Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, France. Mikel completed his PhD in Computer Science at UCF in 2010. His research focuses mainly on video interpretation which includes tracking, visual motion [...]