RI Seminar
Pedro Szekely
Project Leader, Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California

STaC: Automated Adaptation of Strategic Guidance in Multiagent Coordination

Event Location: 1305 Newell Simon HallBio: Dr. Pedro Szekely is a Project Leader in USC/ISI and a Research Assistant Professor in USC’s Computer Science Department. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1982 and 1987. Pedro has worked on user interfaces, multi-agent systems, and planning and scheduling. [...]

RI Seminar
Cynthia Breazeal
Associate Professor, Media Arts and Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The social side of personal robots

Event Location: 1305 Newell Simon HallBio: Dr. Cynthia Breazeal is an Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she founded and directs the Personal Robots Group at the Media Lab. She is a pioneer of social robotics and Human Robot Interaction. She has authored the book “Designing Sociable [...]

Seminar
Tim Salcudean
Professor
University of British Columbia

Tissue elasticity imaging for the simulation and guidance of percutaneous procedures

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Septimiu (Tim) E. Salcudean (S’78-M’-79-SM’03-F’05) received the B. Eng (Hons.) and M.Eng degrees from McGill University and the Ph.D. degree from U.C. Berkeley, all in Electrical Engineering. From 1986 to 1989, he was a Research Staff Member in the robotics group at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He then joined [...]

RI Seminar
Kristen Grauman
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at Austin

Steering Human Insight for Large-Scale Visual Learning

Event Location: 1305 Newell Simon HallBio: Kristen Grauman is a Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research in computer vision and machine learning focuses on visual search and object recognition. Before joining UT-Austin in 2007, she received her Ph.D. in the EECS [...]

RI Seminar
James O'Brien
Associate Professor, Computer Science
UC Berkeley

Sparse Matrix Factorization, Mesh Modification, and Real-Time FEM Simulation

Event Location: 1305 Newell Simon HallBio: James F. O'Brien is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His primary area of interest is Computer Animation, with an emphasis on generating realistic motion using physically based simulation and motion capture techniques. He has authored numerous papers on these topics. In addition [...]