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[Jan 2024] Two papers accepted to ICRA 2024 [ICRA-1] [ICRA-2]
[Dec 2023] Started a tenure-track assistant scientist position at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI).
[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] 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 [ICRA-1] [ICRA-2]
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[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 [OCEANS-1] [OCEANS-2]
[July 2022] Co-Organizing workshop at Robotics Science and Systems Conference (http://raaslab.org/rss2022/). [link]
[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.
[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.
[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.
[Dec 2019] Won third place prize in Student Poster Competition at Oceans Conference in Seattle, USA [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].
[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].
[Sept 2017] Attended IROS and RosCon, Vancouver, Canada. Presented a contributed paper at IROS.
[Aug 2016] Starting a PhD in Computer Science at University of South Carolina (USC).
[Aug 2016] Featured on Alumni Spotlight at American University of Armenia [article].
[Sept 2015] Attended the Machine Learning Summer School in University of Kyoto.
[Aug 2015] Awarded Caloust Gulbenkian Foundation Travel Award [link]
[May 2015] Completed Master's Degree at American University of Armenia [link] (Hooding ceremony[link]).
[March 2015] Awarded Presidential IT award as Best Master's student (first category) nominated by American University of Armenia (AUA) [link].