Brown University’s Humanity Centered Robotics Initiative (HCRI) is proud to feature a multidisciplinary Speaker Series that showcases diverse and groundbreaking research undertaken by leaders in science, technology, design, and impact of robotics on society. Members of the HCRI network and their visitors give research talks announced on this calendar and the HCRI mailing list. (To sign up for the listserve, email hcri@brown.edu.)
*Many talks are filmed and are available for viewing. Click here for talks through Spring ’17 and here for more recent ones.*
2019-2020:
September 18 at 2:00 in CIT 368: Scott Niekum, University of Texas Austin
October 2 at 2:00 in CIT 477 Lubrano: Ian Wong, Brown University
October 9 at 2:00 in CIT 477 Lubrano: Ehsan Hoque, University of Rochester
October 16 at 2:00 in CIT 477 Lubrano: Brooks Hagan, Rhode Island School of Design
November 20 at 2:00 in CIT 477 Lubrano: Thomas Howard, University of Rochester
February 6 at noon in CIT 368: Yoav Artzi, Cornell University
CANCELLED: April 1 at 2:00 in CIT 241 Swig: Matthew Reuben, UCLA
CANCELLED: April 23 at 4:00 in CIT 368: Melanie Mitchell, Santa Fe Institute, Portland State University
*Past Talks*
2018-2019:
October 4, 12:00-12:50 in CIT 477: Kostas Daniilidis, University of Pennsylvania
October 25, 12:00-12:50 in CIT 477: Brandon Basso, Uber
November 1, 12:00-12:50 in CIT 477: Tom Ryden, MassRobotics
December 6, 12:00-12:50 in CIT 477: Jonathan Kelly, University of Toronto
January 24, 12:00-12:50 in CIT 477: Forrest Iandola, DeepScale
February 7, 12:00-12:50 in CIT 477: Madeline Gannon, INVIDIA
February 21, 12:00-12:50 in CIT 477: Nick Porcino, Facebook Reality Labs
February 28, 12:00-12:50 in CIT 477: Renee Hobbs, University of Rhode Island
March 14, 12:00-12:50 in CIT 477: Daniel Kasenberg, Tufts University
March 15, 3:00-4:00 in CIT 368: Chris Speed, University of Edinburgh
March 21, 12:00-12:50 in CIT 477: Girish Chowdhary, University of Illinois
May 16, 12:00-12:50 in CIT 477: Caitlin Mueller, MIT
2017-2018:
September 13, 12:00-1:00 in CIT 477: Beth Altringer, Piaggio Fast Forward, Harvard University
September 27, 12:00-1:00 in CIT 477: William Regli, DARPA
October 3, 1:00-2:20 in CIT 506: Adam Bry, Skydio (Tech talk)
October 4, 12:00-1:00 in CIT 477: Chaiwoo Lee and Samantha Brady, MIT AgeLab
October 11, 12:00-1:00 in CIT 477: Jivko Sinapov, Tufts University
November 8, 12:00-1:00 in CIT 477: Brad Hayes, University of Colorado
November 14, 1:00-2:20 in CIT 316: Andy Trench, XactSense
November 15, 12:00-1:00 in CIT 477: Katherine Gorman, Collective Next
November 16, 1:00-2:20 in CIT 316: Yoav Artzi, Cornell University
December 6, 12:00-1:00 in CIT 477: Ben Sawyer, MIT AgeLab
December 13, 12:00-1:00 in CIT 477: John Havens, IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems
February 14, 12:00-1:00 in CIT 368: Kyle Wray, University of Massachusetts Amherst
March 9, 12:00-1:00 in CIT 115: Amy LaViers and Catie Cuan, RAD Lab, University of Illinois
April 11, 12:00-1:00 in CIT 477: Jim Bellingham, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
April 18, 12:00-1:00 in CIT 477: Marc Toussaint, MIT, University of Stuttgart
May 2, 12:00-1:00 in CIT 477: Kerstin Haring, US Air Force Academy
May 16, 12:00-1:00 in CIT 477: Hannah Chung and Aaron Horowitz , Sproutel
July 6, 11:00-12:00 in CIT 477: Barak Pearlmutter, Maynooth University
2016-2017:
September 15: Roey Tzezana, University of Tel Aviv and Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center
September 23: Simone Giertz
October 13: Colin Allen, Indiana University
October 20: Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research – Redmond Lab
October 24: Maya Cakmak, University of Washington
October 26: Two tech talks by Rich Caruana, Microsoft Research
October 27: Chuck Anderson, Colorado State University
November 10: Mike Roberts, Stanford University
December 8: Adrian Boteanu, Cornell University
December 12: Jennifer Barry, Boston Dynamics
March 2: Ken Goldberg, University of California Berkeley
March 9: Sorelle Friedler, Haverford College
April 14: Stefanos Nikolaidis, CMU
April 20,: Kunal Mankodiya, University of Rhode Island
April 21: Hanumant Singh, Northeastern University
May 3: Jesse Thomason, University of Texas Austin
May 12: Amanda Pogue, University of Rochester
May 17: Kimberly Hambuchen, NASA
May 18: Iyad Rahwan, MIT
2015-2016:
September 21: Matt Klingensmith, Carnegie Mellon University, Tech Talk
September 28: Jeffrey Bigham, Carnegie Mellon University, Research Talk
October 15: Noah Goodman, Stanford University, Research Talk
October 26: Alborz Geramifard, Amazon, Tech Talk
November 9: Jeffrey Siskind, Purdue University
November 30: Jean-François Bonnefon, Toulouse School of Economics
December 7: Bilge Mutlu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
March 9: Carla Diana, University of Pennsylvania and Smart Design, co-sponsored talk with RISD
March 24: Cynthia Matuszek, University of Maryland-Baltimore County
April 11: Satinder Singh from the University of Michigan
April 28: David McAllester from Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (co-sponsored with DigLit and Brown Effective Altruists student groups)
June 15: Emma Brunskill, Carnegie Mellon University
June 16: Rico Jonschkowski, Technische Universität Berlin
2014-2015:
September 24: Dieter Fox, University of Washington
October 1: Matthias Scheutz, Tufts University
October 8: Edwin Olson, University of Michigan
October 10: Alexandre Lecours, Kinova, Tech Talk
October 22: Andy Law (RISD) and Ilan Moyer (MIT)
October 24: Scott Niekum, Carnegie Mellon University, Tech Talk
November 6: Marie desJardins, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
December 3: Ayanna Howard ’93, Georgia Institute of Technology
December 4: Aaron Dollar, Yale University, Research Talk
December 10: Lydia Kavraki, Rice University (co-sponsored with Brown’s Center for Computational Molecular Biology [CCMB])
December 12: Anca Dragan, Carnegie Mellon University, Tech Talk
January 21: Maja Mataric´, University of Southern California
February 3: Michael Beetz, University of Bremen, Research Talk
March 18: Paul Bello, Naval Research Laboratory
April 1: Lucy Suchman, Lancaster University
April 29: Leslie Pack Kaelbling, MIT CSAIL
May 27: Stelian Coros, Carnegie Mellon University
July 2: Lawson Wong, MIT CSAIL
2013-2014:
September 18: Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University
September 20: Dejan Pangercic, Robert Bosch LLC
September 27: Josh Tyler, Suitable Technologies
October 2: Janet Vertesi, Princeton University
October 8: John Grotzinger, Caltech
October 9: Lionel Reveret, INRIA
October 23: Brian Scassellati, Yale University
October 29: Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Princeton University
October 31: Yoav Artzi, University of Washington
November 6: Albert Huang ’03, Rethink Robotics
December 18: Chris Roman, University of Rhode Island
February 5: Andy Ruina ’81, Cornell University
February 12: Hadas Kress-Gazit, Cornell University
April 9: Tom Wagner
April 11: Ryan Williams, University of Southern California
April 16: Eric Joyner
April 18: Hema Koppula, Cornell University
April 23: Andrea Thomaz, Georgia Institute of Technology
April 30: Morana Alac, UC San Diego
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Additionally, we celebrated National Robotics Week (April 5-13, 2014) at Brown with a special series of talks and events, including:
Saturday, April 5: Robot Block Party
Wednesday, April 9: HCRI Guest Speaker: Tom Wagner
Friday, April 11: HCRI Research Talk: Ryan Williams
Saturday, April 12: Brown IEEE Robotics Competition
Tuesday, April 29: Screening of the film Robot and Frank
The Humanity Centered Robotics Initiative aims to address the issues and challenges of robotics and society through building on Brown’s interdisciplinary strengths across the physical, life, and social sciences, as well as the humanities. The initiative has a commitment to three goals:
- Understanding societal needs to explore problems in society that can be resolved with the help of scientific and technical solutions.
- Advancing human-centered technology to develop next-generation robots that enhance quality of life and foster productivity by learning from, teaching, supporting, and collaborating with humans.
- Understanding societal impact to assess the economic, social, legal, ethical, and policy ramifications of new robotic technologies.
For more information on the speaker series, email hcri(@)brown.edu.
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