2024

• [Dec 2024] Invited talk at Brown University as part of BigAI seminar series [link].

• [Dec 2024] Invited talk at Northeastern University hosted by Field Robotics Lab (FRL).

• [Oct 2024] Field Work in Ginnie and Blue Grotto Springs in Florida.

• [Sept 2024] Serving as an Associate Editor for ICRA 2025.

• [Aug 2024] Joined National Advisory Board (NAB) of USDA Smart Sustainable Shellfish Aquaculture Management (S3AM) project. 

• [July 2024] Field Robotics Session Chair for Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) 2024 with Dr. Derek Paley.

• [July 2024] Serving as a General Chair with Manuel Keppler for RSS Pioneers 2024 Workshop [X] [Linkedin].

• [May 2024] Presented Two papers at ICRA 2024 in Yokohama, Japan [Linkedin].

• [Jan 2024] Two papers accepted to ICRA 2024 [ICRA24-1] [ICRA24-2]

2023

• [Dec 2023] Started a tenure-track assistant scientist position at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI).

• [July 2023] Attending RSS Pioneers 2023 and serving as a mentor on RSS Inclusion 2023 Workshop [link].

• [June 2023] Presented two posters and organized workshop at ICRA 2023 on Heterogeneity in Multi-robot Systems (http://raaslab.org/icra2023-hmrs/). [link]

• [May 2023] Xiaomin Lin brought the team a "Best Poster Involving Graduate Student Research" award at Maryland Robotics Center (MRC) 2023 Research Symposium.

• [May 2023] Invited talk at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) [link]

• [June 2023] Selected as an RSS Pioneer 2023 [link]

• [May 2023] Serving as and Associate Editor for IROS,ICRA, RA-L 2024.

• [May 2023] We were at the 25th Maryland Day showing our robots to kids and their parents. [link]

• [May 2023] Invited talk at George Mason University (GMU) [link].

• [April 2023] Invited talk at University of Colorado Denver (CUDenver).

• [April 2023] Invited talk at University of Central Florida (UCF) [link]

• [Feb 2023] Presenting at the ArtIAMAS Year 3 kickoff winter meeting. [link]

• [Jan 2023] Two papers accepted to ICRA 2023 [ICRA23-1] [ICRA23-2]

2022

• [Dec 2022] Our Workshop for ICRA 2023 on  "Heterogeneity in Multi-Robot Systems (HMRS): Theory, Practice and Applications" was accepted. [http://raaslab.org/icra2023-hmrs/]

• [Dec 2022] Invited talk at GRASPLab at University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) [link].

• [Oct 2022] Our work on oyster modeling got a highlight at UMD news [story].

• [Oct 2022] Our paper is presented at IROS 2022 [IROS].

• [Oct 2022] Two papers presented at the OCEANS 2022 Hampton Roads [OCEANS22-1] [OCEANS22-2]

• [July 2022] Co-Organizing workshop at Robotics Science and Systems Conference (http://raaslab.org/rss2022/). [link]

• [May 2022] Serving as an Associate Editor for IROS 2023.

• [April 2022] Interview in Armenian about Robotics, it's Applications and the role in Armenia with national media outlet Civilnet for Gituzh Initiative. [link] 

• [Jan 2022] Started a new position as a Postdoctoral Associate at University of Maryland, College Park. 

2021

• [Dec 2021] Received 2022 Breakthrough Graduate Scholars award. 

• [Dec 2021] UofSC Doctoral Hooding Ceremony on Dec 13 at Koger Center of the Arts [link].

• [Oct 2021] PhD Dissertation Defense on Oct 11, 2021 at 12:30pm, Innovation Center room 2267. The dissertation topic "Robot Area Coverage Path Planning in Aquatic Environments". 

• [July 2021] Awarded Maryland Robotics Center Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2021-2022. The program is an extended collaboration with Army Research Laboratory with involvement of multiple faculty members across University of Maryland. I will be supervised by Dr. Dinesh Manocha.

2020

• [Oct 2020] Presented Poster at Global Oceans Conference (virtual) [link]. 

• [Sept 2020] WAR in Artsakh ... 

• [June 2020 ] Awarded Japanese Science for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research in Japan (short term) for 2020-2021 [link]. Will be joining one of the Leading Japanese Space Exploration Labs at Tohoku University under supervision of Professor Kazuya Yoshida. (covid pending)

• [Feb 2020] Started Software Engineering and Research Internship at Leading Global Consumer Robot Company - iRobot.

2019

• [Dec 2019] Won third place prize in Student Poster Competition at Oceans Conference in Seattle, USA [link][link].  

• [Aug 2019] Presented three contribution papers at Field and Service Robotics (FSR) conference in Tokyo, Japan.

• [May 2019] Our research at Autonomous Field Robotics Lab featured at University of South Carolina News [link], [photos].

• [March 2019] Gave a talk at American University of Armenia on Marine Robotics Research and Development, Yerevan, Armenia [link].

• [Nov 2019] Gave a presentation at Informed Scientific Sampling in Large-scale Outdoor Environments Workshop at IROS conference, Macau, China [link].

2018

• [May 2018] Awarded SPARC graduate research grant 2018-2019 from University of South Carolina [link].

• [Fall 2018] Teaching Introduction to Robotics class at University of South Carolina: [CSCE274 Robotics Applications and Design] .

• [Oct 2018] Our work on Jetyak and StereoRig sensor suits were presented at Oceans Conference, Charleston, USA.

• [May 2018] Presented a contributed paper at ICRA conference and a poster on Area Coverage problem and preliminary results of PhD research at ICRA 2018 PhD Forum, Brisbane, Australia [link].