May 2019 Robotics Master’s Thesis Presentations

9:30am – Introduction and Welcome
Dr. CJ Taylor – ROBO Graduate Program Chair
9:45am – Miranda Cravetz
  (Advised by Dr. Mark Yim and Dr. James Pikul)
  “Electrostatic Actuators and Adhesion for Soft Robotic Systems”
10:00am – Xu Liu
  (Advised by Dr. Vijay Kumar & Dr. CJ Taylor)
  “Detect, Measure and Map Objects from 3D LIDAR Point Clouds”
10:15am – Karl Schmeckpeper
  (Advised by Dr. Kostas Daniilidis)
  “Semi-Supervised Action Representations for Robotic Planning”
10:30am – Yuhan Zhao
  (Advised by Dr. Michael Posa)
  “Model Predictive Control on the Robot Contact Problem”
10:45am – Rosalind Shinkle
  (Advised by Dr. Daniel Koditschek)
  “Turtlebot Playground: A Development and Simulation Environment for Robot Planning Algorithms”
11:00am – Lingzhi Zhang
  (Advised by Dr. Jianbo Shi)
  “Visual Synthesis for Recognition”
11:15am – Ziyun Wang
  (Advised by Dr. Kostas Daniilidis)
“The Motion Equivariance of Event-based Camera Data with Temporal Normalization Transform”

11:30am – Break / Switch to New Room – Towne 337

12:00pm – Dian Chen
  (Advised by Dr. Kostas Daniilidis)
  “3D Multi-Person Pose and Shape Estimation from Monocular Images”
12:15pm – Christopher Painter
  (Advised by Dr. Eric Eaton & Dr. Brian Litt)
“Patient Non-Specific Continuous EEG Seizure Detection in the Intensive Care Unit”
12:30pm – Jaimie Carlson
(Advised by Dr. Cynthia Sung)
  “REBOund: A Reconfigurable Jumping Origami Robot”
12:45pm – Chenhao Liu
  (Advised by Dr. Vijay Kumar)
  “Multi-Sensor System for Long-Distance Navigation in Forests”
1:00pm – Maria Kustikova
  (Advised by Dr. Kostas Daniilidis & Dr. Chris Callison-Burch)
  “Clustering Paraphrases by Word Sense using Textual and Visual information”
 
1:15pm – End of Presentations