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GRASP Lab News - Archive
press here for latest news.| Nov 2006, Michael Zavlanos is one of four finalists for the Best Student Paper Award the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control for his paper entitled "A Dynamical Systems Approach to Weighted Graph Matching". |
Nov 2006, Mark Yim and Vijay Kumar joined with the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Lab and others to obtain a DARPA contract to design a remote controlled nano air vehicle (NAV). press release |
| Oct 2006, The Ben Franklin Racing Team led by GRASP was chosen as one final teams to participate the 2007 Urban Challenge. press release |
| Aug 2006, Robotics : Science and Systems 2006 was be hosted by the GRASP lab. |
| Aug 2006, GRASP welcomes Ben Taskar (January 2007) and Katherine Kuchenbecker (September 2007) to its faculty. |
| Aug 2006, Mark Yim and former GRASPee, Jim Ostrowski, are the workshop chairs for Robotics 2006. |
| Jul 2006, Vijay Kumar will co-organize the 10th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics. |
| Jun 2006, Ameesh Makadia was ranked first (in 11 out of 17 criteria)in the first 3D shape retrieval contest. |
| Jun 2006, C.J. Taylor is a Program Chair for the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. |
| May 2006, GRASP to offer Masters of Science and Engineering in Robotics. For more Information |
| Apr 2006, Dan Lee received the 2006 Lindback Teaching Award. |
| Apr 2006, GRASP Robocup team, The UPennalizers finished 3rd the US Open Robocup 2006. |
| Mar 2006 Abubakr Muhammad will receive the Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Best Dissertation Award. Dr. Muhammad will be recognized for his thesis entitled "Graphs, Simplicial Complexes and Beyond: Topological Tools for Multi-agent Coordination." |
| Feb 2006 Nader Motee is a finalist for the Best Student Paper Award at the 2006 American Control Conference. |
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Feb 2006 UPENN co-hosted a reception and exhibition in Washington, D.C. entitled “Innovation in Action” for members of Congress. Penn’s exhibit featured robots from the lab of Prof. Dan Koditschek. press release |
| Jan 2006 GRASP seminar lectures are now available online!! |
| Jan 2006 Kostas Daniilidis is conference co-chair with Marc Pollefeys of the Third International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission that will take place in Chapel Hill, NC, June 14-16, 2006. |
| Dec 2005, Prof. Jadbabaie is the co-recipient of the 2005 George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award by the IEEE Control System Society |
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2005, Dan
Lee is a
workshop co-chair for the
2005 Neural Information Processing Systems. |
| Nov 2005, Vijay Kumar and GRASP alumni, Greg Hager and Hugh Durrant-Whyte, have been elected IEEE Fellows. |
| Nov 2005, Mark Yim is nominated for the 2005 World Technology Awards, press release. |
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Sep 2005, Vijay Kumar and Dan Koditschek are featured in NSF Exhibition of the Leading Edge of Robotics Research, press release |
| Aug 2005, George J. Pappas is the new Director of the GRASP lab. |
| Aug 2005, GRASP organized workshop on Swarming in Natural and Engineered Systems. |
| Jul 2005, Congratulations to GRASP faculty Prof. Dan Lee and Prof. Lawrence on being promoted to Associate Professors. |
| May 2005, GRASP Robocup team, The UPennalizers finished 2nd in the US Open Robocup 2005 |
| Mar 2005 Congratulations to Meghann Lomas and Georgios Fainekos for 2005 Graduate Research Symposium Best Poster. |
| Apr 2005, George J. Pappas organized the first annual Student Workshop on Nonlinear and Hybrid Systems. |
| Mar 2005, GRASP leads MIT, Berkeley, Santa Barbara, and Yale to $5 million MURI award on swarming. |
Vijay Kumar, Director, GRASP Lab, has been named the UPS Foundation Professor of Transportation. The Chair in Transportation, one of three established by the UPS Foundation at Penn, is focused on transportation management as enabled by technology. (January 2005)
Max Mintz, GRASP faculty member and Professor, CIS, received the first Award for Teaching Excellence in the Hard Sciences from the University's Student Committee on Undergraduate Education for his "outstanding skills to engage and inspire students." (January 2005)
New Students: The lab welcomes new graduate students: Ali Sinop, Qihui Zhu, Antoine Girard, Alexander Patterson, Alireza Tahbaz, Ricky Der, Mirko Visontai and Song Gang. (September 2004)
New Faculty: Dr. Mark Yim joins the faculty of GRASP as an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics in September 2004. Dr. Yim (Ph.D. Stanford, 1994) is currently Area Manager, Systems and Practice Lab, Smart Electro-Mechanical Systems Area (SEMS) and principal investigator for the Modular Reconfigurable Robotics project with the Palo Alto Research Center (formerly Xerox PARC) in Palo Alto, California. Dr. Yim is internationally known for his seminal work in modular robotics and reconfigurable locomotion systems. (September 2004)
RoboCup News: The Penn RoboCup team finished 4th overall (out of 24 international teams) and was the top American team in the 4-legged league at RoboCup 2004 held June 27 - July 5 in Lisbon, Portugal. The team was led by GRASP faculty member and ESE assistant professor Dan Lee. Read a description of the team's achievement here. (July 2004)
Kilian Weinberger received the best student paper award at the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2004), held June 27 - July 2 in Washington D.C., for his paper "Unsupervised Learning of Image Manifolds by Semidefinite Programming," co-authored with GRASP faculty member and CIS assistant professor Lawrence Saul. (July 2004)
Kilian Weinberger and Fei Sha received the outstanding student paper award at The Twenty-First International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2004), held July 4-8 in Banff, Canada, for their paper "Learning a Kernel Matrix for Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction," co-authored with GRASP faculty member and CIS assistant professor Lawrence Saul. (July 2004)
Lab founder Ruzena Bajcsy receives the ACM 2003 Distinguished Service Award for "outstanding contributions to computer science, information technology and societal systems as a researcher, educator and administrator." (May 2004)
Peng Song, alumnus Jeff Trinkle, and Vijay Kumar, received the Kayamori Best Paper Award at the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2004) for their paper "Design of Part Feeding and Assembly Processes with Dynamics." (May 2004)
George Pappas is honored with Presidential Early Career Award by President Bush for his research in hybrid systems. (May 2004)
Congratulations to George Pappas on his early promotion to Associate Professor. (April 2004)
Ali Jadbabaie receives a Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research for his proposal "An Optimization-Based Approach to Distributed Coordination of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)." (March 2004)
Hakan Yazarel is a finalist for the Best Student Paper Award at the 2004 American Control Conference (ACC). His paper is entitled "Geometric Programming Relaxations for Linear System Reachability." The winner will be selected during this June's ACC. (March 2004)
George Pappas and Rajeev Alur are co-chairs of the Hybrid Systems: Computation & Control (HSCC 2004) 7th International Workshop being held March 25-27, 2004 at the Hilton Inn at Penn. (March 2004)
Gallery and Alumni pages: Visit the Lab's new and growing gallery of photos and list of Alumni.
RuzieFest: A Tribute to Ruzena Bajcsy and the GRASP Lab celebrated the accomplishments of the Lab's founder, on the occasion of her 70th birthday. (October 2003) See the pictures! (January 2004)
New Students: The Lab welcomes fourteen new students to the PhD program! Ali Ahmadzadeh, David Cappelleri, Ryan Cekander, Timothee Cour, Hadas Kress Gazit, Ankita Kumar, Qian Liu, Nima Moshtagh, Nader Motee, Barry Mukundakrishnan, Ethan Stump, Matt Ulrich, Michael Zavlanos, and Liming Zhao. (September 2003)
Recent Graduates: Congratulations to our recent graduates! Calin Belta earned his PhD and joined Drexel University. Aveek Das earned his PhD and joined Sarnoff Corporation. Oleg Naroditski earned his MS and joined Sarnoff Corporation. John Spletzer earned his PhD and joined Lehigh University. Paulo Tabuada completed his post-doctoral fellowship and joined the University of Notre Dame. Bert Tanner completed his post-doctoral fellowship and joined the University of New Mexico. Xenophon Zampoulis completed his post-doctoral fellowship and joined Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. (September 2003)
More Graspees on the move: Nikhil Kelshikar has moved on to Mission Critical Technologies in Beverly Hills. (September 2003)
