About the speaker:
Anca is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at UC Berkeley. She runs the InterACT lab, focusing on enabling robots to work with, around, and in support of people. Her goal is for robots to autonomously generate their behavior in a way that moves beyond functionality and formally accounts for interaction with humans. This combines optimal control, machine learning, and cognitive science, with applications in collaborative manipulation and autonomous driving. Anca got her PhD in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University on planning intent-expressive robot motion. She has been honored by the Sloan Fellowship, MIT TR35, the Okawa award, and an NSF CAREER award.
About the Series:
Launched in 2008, the CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic, industry, and civic leaders. Join us this fall to celebrate 10 years of innovative ideas and dialogue.
Learn more about CITRIS and the Banatao Institute at the University of California.
—-
The CITRIS Research Exchange is free and open to the public. Each one-hour seminar starts at 12pm Pacific time and is hosted live at Sutardja Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus, unless otherwise noted. Register online by Monday prior for a complimentary lunch inside the auditorium.
- Live broadcast at https://www.youtube.com/user/citrisuc/live.
- Join the conversation on Twitter: @citrisnews #CITRISRE.
- All talks may be viewed on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/citrisuc/playlists.
- Join our mailing list to receive the latest news, event announcements, and cutting-edge research updates from CITRIS and the Banatao Institute! Visit http://bit.ly/SubscribeCITRIS to sign up today. Past issues are available at: http://citris-uc.org/newsletter/.
Photo credit: Noah Berger