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Congratulations Dr. Vuong!
Quan Vuong recently defended his PhD thesis titled “Robot learning through Reinforcement Learning, Teleoperation and Scene Reconstruction”. He will be starting a new adventure in his life at Google Brain. Congratulations Quan!
Papers Accepted at CVPR and ISRR 2022!
Our papers on indoor robot navigation, and manipulation got accepted at Embodied AI workshop in CVPR 2022, and ISRR 2022 respectively. Check out Publications page for more information!
Four papers at CASE 2022!
Very excited to present FOUR papers at CASE. The research covers topics like manipulation, human face anonymization, and global localization in airport environments. Check out Publications page for more information!
Paper Accepted at ICRA 2022!
Our paper titled “TridentNetV2 Lightweight Graphical Global Plan Representations for Dynamic Trajectory Generation” has been accepted for publication at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2022, Philadelphia, USA.
Congratulations Dr. Parashar!
Priyam recently defended his PhD thesis titled “Using Meta-reasoning for Failure Detection and Recovery in Assembly Domain”. She will be starting a new adventure in her life at Meta. Congratulations Priyam!
We got a new grant from NSF!
UCSD was recently awarded a $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation for conducting research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and optimization. Prof. Christensen is co-leading the robotics initiative!
Congratulations Dr. White-Magner!
Ruffin White-Magner recently defended his PhD thesis titled “Usable Security and Verification for Distributed Robotic Systems”. He will be starting a new adventure in his life at Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia. Congratulations Ruffin!
Congratulations Graduates!
David Paz, Cassie Qiu, Jiaming Hu, Henry Zhang, and Michelle Sit completed their respective Master of Science degrees. David, Cassie, Jiaming and Henry will be continuing for their PhD, while Michelle will be starting a new career in the industry. Congratulations everyone!
Paper Accepted at CVPR 2020!
Our paper titled “Looking at the Right Stuff – Guided Semantic-Gaze for Autonomous Driving” has been accepted for publication at IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2020, Seattle, USA.
Congratulations Dr. Wang!
Shengye Wang recently defended his PhD thesis titled “Reliability Engineering for Long-term Autonomous Service Robots”. He will be starting a new adventure in his life at Waymo. Congratulations Shengye!