CITRIS People and Robots Seminar Series Archive

Information about past CITRIS People and Robots events below:

Date	Speakers	Affiliation	Time	Location	Video
Jan. 27	Amy LaViers	California Institute of Technology	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	N/A
Feb. 3	Jeannette Bohg	University of California, Berkeley	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	N/A
Feb. 10	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Feb. 17	Holiday	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Feb. 24	Tamer Baser	Google	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	N/A
Mar. 2	Dimitra Panagou	University of Colorado, Boulder	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	N/A
Mar. 9	Hadas Kress-Gazit / or Alberto Rodriguez MIT)	Holiday	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mar. 16	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mar. 23	Spring Break	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mar. 30	Behcet Acikmese	Institute for Systems and Robots	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	N/A
Apr. 6	Sam Burden	Creator	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	N/A
Apr. 13	Tom White	Victoria University of Wellington	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	N/A
Apr. 20	Emma Brunskill	Stanford	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	N/A
Apr. 27	Dorsa Sadigh	Stanford	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	N/A
May 4	Saurabh Amin	MIT	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	N/A
May 11	UC Berkeley Finals	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Date	Speakers	Affiliation	Time	Location	Video
Jan. 28	Aaron Ames: Safety-Critical Control of Dynamic Robotic Systems	California Institute of Technology	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Feb. 4	Daniel Fremont: Safe Autonomy with Algorithmic Improvisation	University of California, Berkeley	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Feb. 11	Martin Schoeberl: A Time-predictable Multicore Processor Architecture for Real-Time Systems	Technical University of Denmark	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Feb. 18	Holiday	Holiday	N/A	N/A	N/A
Feb. 25	Ankur Taly: Analyzing Deep Neural Networks	Google	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Mar. 4	Sriram Sankaranarayanan	University of Colorado, Boulder	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Vi d eo
Mar. 25	Holiday	Holiday	N/A	N/A	N/A
Apr. 8	Joel Burdick	California Institute of Technology	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Apr. 15	Scott Niekum: Scaling Probabilistically Safe Learning to Robotics	University of Texas at Austin	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Apr. 29	Pedro Aguiar	Institute for Systems and Robots	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
May 13	Jeff C Jensen	Creator	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video

Date	Speakers	Affiliation	Time	Location	Video
Aug. 27	Jeff Mahler	University of California, Berkeley	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Sept. 10	Katie Campbell	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Sept. 17	Mark Palatucci	ANKI	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Sept. 24	Jur van den Berg	University of Utah	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	N/A
Oct. 1	Zico Kolter	Carnegie Mellon University	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Oct. 8	Sertac Karaman	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Oct. 15	Jerry Ding	United Technologies Research Center	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Oct. 22	David Gealy	University of California, Berkeley	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Oct. 29	Ian Mitchell	University of British Columbia	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Nov. 5	Liam Pedersen	Nissan	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Nov. 26	Kris Pister	University of California, Berkeley	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	N/A
Dec. 3	Christopher D. Gill	Washington University	11am-12pm	400 Cory Hall, UC Berkeley	N/A
Dec. 3	Alessandro Astolfi	Imperial College London	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	N/A
Dec. 4	Martin Törngren	Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan Royal Institute of Technology	4-5pm	540 A/B, UC Berkeley	N/A
Dec. 10	Sonia Martinez	University of California, San Diego	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	N/A

Date	Speakers	Affiliation	Time	Location	Video
Jan. 22	David Camarillo	Stanford University	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Jan. 29	Koushil Sreenath: Safety-Critical Control for Dynamic Legged and Aerial Robotics	University of California, Berkeley	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Feb. 5	Alberto Rodriguez: Manipulation Skills that I Wish My Robots Had	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Feb. 12	Abhishek Halder: Fast Computation of Reachable Tubes for Provably Safe Unmanned Aerial Systems Traffic Management	University of California, Santa Cruz	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Feb. 26	Russ Taylor: A Thirty Year Perspective on Medical Robotics: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow	Johns Hopkins University	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Mar. 12	Changliu Liu: Designing Robot Behavior in Human-Robot Interactions	Stanford University	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Mar. 19	Michael Wehner: Safe by design, developments in autonomous and proprioceptive soft robots	University of California, Santa Cruz	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Apr. 23	David Lentink	Stanford University	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	N/A

Date	Speakers	Affiliation	Time	Location	Video
Aug. 28	Leila Takayama: On Being Re-Embodied as a Robot	University of California, Santa Cruz	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Oct. 2	Julie Adams: The road to adaptive robot teammates	Oregon State University	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Oct. 9	Hannah Stuart: Robust Robotic Hand Design for Remote Ocean Exploration	Stanford University	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Vi d eo
Oct. 19	Eric Krotkov: Research & Development at the Toyota Research Institute	Toyota Research Institute	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Oct. 30	Mac Schwager: Ants Don’t Use WiFi: Enabling Robotic Agents to Collaborate and Compete without a Communication Network	Stanford	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Nov. 6	Stefano Carpin: Risk aware multi-objective planning for mobile robotics	University of California, Merced	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Nov. 13	Oren Salzman: The Provable Virtue of Laziness in Motion Planning	Canegie Mellon	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Nov. 16	David Hsu: Robot-Human Adaptation and Mutual Adaptation	National University of Singapore	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	N/A
Nov. 20	Rishabh Singh	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Postponed to 1/22/18	David Camarillo	Stanford	N/A	N/A	N/A
Postponed	Brian Gerkey	Open Source Robotics Foundation	N/A	N/A	N/A

Date	Speakers	Affiliation	Time	Location	Video
Feb. 13	Julie Shah: Enhancing Human Capability with Intelligent Machine Teammates	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video Slides
Feb. 24	Marjan Sirjani: Can We Trust Self-Driving Cars? Adaptive Timed Actors for building Dependable CyberPhysical Systems	Mälardalen University	2-3pm	540, Cory Hall, UC Berkeley	N/A
Feb. 27	Rajeev Joshi: The Bugs that went to Mars and Terrorized Earth	NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Mar. 3	Brian Lathrop: 3 + 1 – An HMI Design Framework for Autonomous Vehicles	Volkswagen of America, Electronics Research Lab	2-3pm	540 Cory Hall, UC Berkeley	N/A
Mar. 6	Clark Barrett: Automatic discovery and localization of tough bugs in large SoCs using formal-enhanced quick error detection	Stanford University & Google	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Mar. 13	Sergey Levine: Deep Robotic Learning	University of California, Berkeley	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Mar. 20	Stanley Osher: Overcoming the Curse of Dimensionality for Hamilton-Jacobi equations with Applications to Control and Differential Games	University of California, Los Angeles	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	V i deo
Apr. 3	Tim Salcudean: Ultrasound and ultrasound-mediated image guidance for robot assisted surgery	University of British Columbia	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Apr. 10	Parvez Ahammad: ML for web application security: Reconciling two competing philosophies	Instart Logic	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Apr. 17	Steven Shladover: Road Vehicle Automation: History, Opportunities, and Challenges	University of California, Berkeley	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Apr. 24	Necmiye Ozay: Control Synthesis for Large Collections of Dynamical Systems with Counting Constraints	University of Michigan	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	N/A
May 12	Loris D’Antoni: Adventures in Program Repair	University of Wisconsin-Madison	10am-12pm	540, Cory Hall, UC Berkeley	N/A
May 12	Mark Ho: How People Intentionally Teach Agents in Interactive Settings	Brown University	1pm-2pm	540, Cory Hall, UC Berkeley	N/A

Date	Speakers	Affiliation	Time	Location	Video
Aug. 22	Alessandro Abate: Data-driven and model-based quantitative verification and correct-by-design synthesis of CPS	University of Oxford	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Aug 29	Mykel Kochenderfer: Building Trust in Decision Support Systems for Aerospace	Stanford University	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	N/A
Sep 12	Mark Mueller: Multicopter dynamics and control: surviving the complete loss of multiple actuators and quickly generating trajectories	University of California, Berkeley	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Sep 19	Joao Hespanha: Opportunities and Challenges in Control Systems arising from Ubiquitous Communication and Computation	University of California, Santa Barbara	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Sep 22	Tom Henzinger: The Quest for Average Response Time	IST Austria	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	N/A
Sep 26	Meeko Oishi: Collaborative control for human-in-the-loop systems: Optimal interface design and reachability-based collaborative navigation	University of New Mexico	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Sep 29	Arthur Krener: Adaptive Horizon Model Predictive Control	University of California, Davis	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	N/A
Oct 04	Marilena Vendittelli: Interaction force reconstruction for humanoid robots	Sapienza University of Rome	3-4pm	730, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	N/A
Oct 10	Aws Albarghouthi: Proving that Programs do not Discriminate	University of Wisconsin-Madison	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Oct 17	Tom Griffiths: Bounde d optimality and human cognition	University of California, Berkeley	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Oct 24	Nancy Amato: Sampling-Based Motion Planning: From Intelligent CAD to Crowd Simulation to Protein Folding	Texas A&M University	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Video
Oct 26	Subramanian Ramamoorthy: Understanding Others: Robot Learning in Interactions	University of Edinburgh	2-3pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	N/A
Nov 07	Ian Mitchell: Using Model Checking Verifications at Runtime: The Proof is only Half the Battle	University of British Columbia	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
Nov 08	Marta Kwiatkowska: Using Model Checking Verifications at Runtime: The Proof is only Half the Battle	University of Oxford	4-5pm	540, Cory Hall, UC Berkeley
Nov 14	Marco Pavone: Safety Verification of Deep Neural Networks	Stanford University	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
Nov 21	Hamsa Balakrishnan: Dealing with Delays Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love Air Travel	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
Nov 28	Karl Johansson: Optimizing cooperative driving for goods transportation	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	3-4pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
Dec 05	Yon Visell: Engineering Touch	University of California, Santa Barbara	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley

Date	Speakers	Affiliation	Time	Location	Video
Jan. 11	Ashish Tiwari: Verifying Hybrid Systems	SRI International	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Youtube
Jan. 25	Antonio Bicchi	University of Pisa	3-4pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Youtube
Jan. 25	Stefano Ermon	Stanford University	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Youtube
Feb. 01	Matthew Mason	Carnegie Mellon University	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Youtube
Feb. 08	Lotfi A. Zadeh	University of California, Berkeley	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	Youtube
Feb. 15	Kostas Bekris	Rutgers University	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
Feb. 22	Werner Damm	Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
Feb. 29	Paul Bogdan	University of Southern California	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
March 14	Jonathan Sprinkle	University of Arizona	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
March 17	Oussama Khatib	Stanford University	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
March 28	Gregory Hager	Johns Hopkins University	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
Apr. 11	Parimal Kopardekar	NASA	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
Apr. 18	Yiannis Aloimonos	University of Maryland, College Park	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
Apr. 25	Mireille Broucke	University of Toronto	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
May 04	Majid Zamani	University of Washington	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
May 09	Ian Mitchell	University of British Columbia	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
May 10	Eric Horvitz	University of British Columbia	4-5pm	250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley

Date	Speakers	Affiliation	Time	Location	Sponsored by
September 21, Monday	Ruzena Bajscy: Modeling Physical Activities of Humans; Claire Tomlin: Safe Learning in Robotics	UCB	4:00-5:00pm	Room 250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	CITRIS
September 28, Monday	H. Kazerooni: Pediatric Robotics; Stuart Russell: Plans for Robots	UCB	4:00-5:00pm	Room 250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	CITRIS
October 5, Monday	Ron Fearing: Towards Dextrous Locomotion; Chen Li: Locomotion in Complex Terrain	UCB	4:00-5:00pm	Room 250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	CITRIS
October 19, Monday	Lauren Miller: Optimal Ergodic Control for Active Search	UCB	4:00-5:00pm	Room 250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	CITRIS
October 26, Monday	Dejan Milutinovic: Stochastic Robotics	UCSC	4:00-5:00pm	Room 540 A/B, Cory Hall, UC Berkeley	CIT R IS, DREAMS
November 2, Monday	Don Wiberg: Developments in System Identification and new work on Phase Lock Loop control; Renwick Curry: Advances in L2+ guidance law as applied to Air and Marine Surface Vessels; Gabriel Elkaim: Overview of the SeaSlug: Autonomous Oceanographic Research platform	UCSC	3:00-4:00pm	Room 250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	CITRIS
November 9, Monday	Andrew Packard: Using Integral-Quadratic Constraints to model and analyze uncertain dynamic behavior & Anca Dragan: Updates on Algorithmic Human-Robot Interaction	UCB	3:00-4:00pm	Room 250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	CITRIS
November 16, Monday	Pieter Abbeel: Deep Reinforcement Learning; Florian Pokorny: Big Data for Grasping Under Uncertainty	UCB	3:00-4:00pm	Room 250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	CITRIS
November 23, Monday	Francesco Borrelli: Fast Optimization for Robotic Systems; Masayoshi Tomizuka: Industrial Robot Control.	UCB	3:00-4:00pm	Room 250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	CITRIS
November 30, Monday	Ricardo Sanfelice	UCSC	4:00-5:00pm	Room 540 A/B, Cory Hall, UC Berkeley	CITRIS, DREAMS
December 7, Monday	Anupam Chander: Robot Passports; Soheil Ghiasi: Real-time Implementation of Convolutional Neural Networks for Mobile Vision; Zhaodan Kong: TBD	UCD	3:00-4:00pm	Room 250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley	CITRIS

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