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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!
Congrats Dr. Nieto-Granda!
Carlos Nieto-Granda recently defended his PhD thesis titled “Robust Distributed Multi-Robot Information Based Exploration and Sampling”. He will be starting a new adventure in his life at ARL. Congratulations Carlos!
AVL has deployed two self-driving vehicles that are being actively used for research with applications for mail delivery
Three papers at IROS 2019!
Very excited to present THREE papers at IROS. The research covers topics from machine learning for place recognition, designing taxonomy for human-robot teams, and enabling robust logging mechanism for robots using blockchains. Check out Publications page for more information!
