The symposium is a chance for faculty to meet new robotics students on campus, as well as a chance to get a better idea of what IRIM colleagues are up to these days. The goal of the symposium is to spark new ideas, new collaborations, and even new friends!
Event Agenda Overview
9:00am | Registration
9:15 | Introductory Remarks - Gary McMurray
9:30 | Speaker Session 1
- Sehoon Ha, "Motion-based Control of Quadrupedal and Bipedal Robots"
- Danfei Xu, "Robot Learning from Humans: Scaling up and Niching Down"
- Animesh Garg
- Zsolt Kira, "Vision-Language-Action Models for Generalizable Robotics"
- Evagelos Theodorou
10:45am | Break
11:00am | Speaker Session 2
- Stephen Balakirsky
- Harish Ravichandar, "Frugal Robot Learning"
- Ye Zhao, "Enhancing Agility, Safety, and Social Intelligence in Legged Navigation"
- Tony Chen, "Mechanical Intelligent Design for Manipulation and Environment Interaction"
- Aaron Young, "Data-driven Deep Learning of Human Biology Enables Personalized Generalization of Control for Wearable Robotics"
12:15pm - 1:15pm | Lunch (Lunch reserved for registered attendees)
1:15pm | Speaker Session 3
- Jun Ueda, "Automated Magnetic Resonance Elastography Quality Assessment incorporating Mechanical Failure Detection for Liver Stiffness Evaluation"
- Jaydev Desai, "Medical Robotics Research at the RoboMed Lab"
- Yue Chen, "Bio-inspired Continuum Robots"
- Aaron Abramson, "Tissue Interfacing Robotic Therapeutics for Drug Delivery and Biosensing"
- Ai-Ping Hu, "Robotic Phenotyping for Small-Scale Urban Farms"
- Jonathan Rogers, "Control and Estimation Algorithms for Challenging Small UAS Missions"
2:45pm | Break
3:00pm | Speaker Session 4
- Anirban Mazumdar, "Enhancing Robot Mobility Using Physical Partnership"
- Matthew Gombolay, "Assistive Robots Learning from Human Interaction: Lessons from Working with Older Adults"
- Panos Tsiotris, "Research Adventures at the Intersection of Control and Robotics"
- Samuel Coogan, "Safety for Learning-Enabled Autonomous Systems"
- Shreyas Kousik, "Pushing Towards Formal Safety for Tricky Dynamics"
- Matthew Hale, "Multi-Agent Systems: The Roles of Information, Optimality, and Dynamics"
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