VASC Seminar
Neil Johnson
Professor
University of Miami

Learning the hard way: From children and parents to ultrafast machines

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Neil Johnson heads up a new inter-disciplinary research group in Complexity at the University of Miami looking at collective behavior and emergent properties in a wide range of real-world Complex Systems: from physical, biological and medical domains through to social and financial domains. He is also a Professor of Physics. He [...]

VASC Seminar
Robert Tamburo
Project Scientist, RI
RI

Programmable Automotive Headlights

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Robert Tamburo is currently a project scientist at the Robotics Institute in the Illumination and Imaging laboratory. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh in 2006. Afterwards, he was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh and [...]

VASC Seminar
Varun Ramakrishna
PhD Student, RI
Carnegie Mellon

Pose Machines: Articulated Pose Estimation via Inference Machines

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Varun Ramakrishna is a PhD student in the Robotics Institute, advised by Prof. Yaser Sheikh and Prof. Takeo Kanade. His research interests include structured prediction problems in computer vision with a focus on understanding human posture and motion from monocular images and image sequences. Varun was previously a master's student in [...]

VASC Seminar
David Fouhey
PhD Student RI
RI, Carnegie Mellon

Unfolding an Indoor Origami World

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: David Fouhey is a Ph.D. student at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, where he is supervised by Abhinav Gupta and Martial Hebert. He holds an A.B. in Computer Science from Middlebury College. His research addresses a variety of scene understanding tasks in computer vision, with a particular interest in inferring [...]

RI Seminar
Katsushi Ikeuchi
Professor
The University of Tokyo

From Shape-from-shading through e-Heritage

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dr. Katsushi Ikeuchi is a Professor at the University of Tokyo. He received a Ph.D. degree in Information Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1978. After working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s AI Lab for two years, Electrotechnical Lab, Japan for five years, and Carnegie Mellon University for ten [...]

RI Seminar
Michael Wang
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
National University of Singapore

From Compliant Mechanisms to Hyper-Elastic Robots

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Michael Yu Wang is a Professor at National University of Singapore (NUS). Before joining NUS in 2014, he served on the engineering faculty at University of Maryland and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has numerous professional honors–National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award, 1993; Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award from [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Matthias Althoff
Assistant Professor
TU Munich

Guaranteeing Safety of Autonomous Vehicles with On-The-Fly Verification

Event Location: GHC 2109Bio: Matthias Althoff received the diploma in Mechatronics and Information Technology from the department of mechanical engineering at the Technische Universität München, Germany, in 2005. He received his PhD degree (summa cum laude) in electrical engineering from the same university under the supervision of Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing./Univ. Tokio Martin Buss in 2010. From [...]

RI Seminar
Yong-Lae Park
Assistant Professor
Carnegie Mellon, RI

Bio-Inspired Soft Robotics: New Ways of Sensing and Actuation

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Yong-Lae Park is an Assistant Professor in the Robotics Institute and the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Prior to joining CMU in 2013, Prof. Park completed his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, in 2010, and conducted postdoctoral research in the School of Engineering and [...]

VASC Seminar
Michael Zillich
Vienna University of Technology

Vision for cognitive robotics and some open meta problems

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Michael Zillich received his diploma in Mechatronics from Johannes Kepler University Linz in 1998 and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Vienna University of Technology in 2007. Michael Zillich is (co)-author of over 80 publications and served on the program committees of a number of international conferences and as reviewer for [...]