Participants

We are pleased to announce the 27 international PhD students and postdocs in this year's Pioneers Workshop.

• Sanjiban Choudhury (University of Washington, USA) - "Motion Planning as Bayesian Active Learning"
• Lee Clement (University of Toronto, Canada) - "Enabling Long-term Visual Navigation by Learning Models of Appearance"
• Jaime Fisac (University of California - Berkeley, USA) - "Safety Guarantees for Human-Robot Systems through Robust, Confidence-Aware Planning"
• Tesca Fitzgerald (Georgia Institute of Technology) - "Task Transfer via Interactive Assistance"
• Eduard Fosch Villaronga (Queen Mary University of London, England) - "Legal and Regulatory Aspects of Healthcare Robot and Artificial Intelligence Technologies"
• Nakul Gopalan (Brown University, USA)
• Jung-Su Ha (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, Korea) - "High-dimensional Motion Planning using Low-dimensional Latent Variable Models" (movie)
• Noémie Jaquier (Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland) - "Geometry-aware Control and Learning in Robotics"
• Peter Karkus (National University of Singapore, Singapore) - "Integrating Algorithmic Planning and Deep Learning for Decision Making under Uncertainty"
• Hyosang Lee (Max-Planck-Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany) - "Soft Multi-axis Boundary-Electrode Tactile Sensors for Whole-Body Robotic Skin"
• Joshua Mangelson (University of Michigan, USA) - "Convex Optimization Techniques for Enabling Robust Communication Constrained Multi-Agent Autonomous Underwater Inspection"
• Christoforos Mavrogiannis (Cornell University, USA) - "Online Multi-Agent Trajectory Generation for Adaptive Navigation Planning"
• Talia Moore (Harvard University, USA) - "Examining aperiodic locomotion in non-model organisms to inspire legged robotic design for complex terrains"
• Lakshmi Nair (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) - "The MacGyverBot: Inventive Problem Solving by Autonomous Agents"
• Matthew Rueben (Oregon State University, USA) - "Development and testing of a privacy protection system for mobile home robots"
• Oren Salzman (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) - "Minimizing the Fréchet Error of Task-Space Paths for Manipulators and Surgical Robots"
• Ransalu Senanayake (University of Sydney, Australia) - "Probabilistic Dynamic Maps for Path Planning"
• Sumeet Singh (Stanford University) - "Quantifying and Manipulating Risk Sensitivity in Safety Critical Human-Robot Interactions"
• Kiril Solovey (Tel Aviv University, Israel) - "The Critical Radius in Sampling-based Motion Planning"
• Wennie Tabib (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
• Tarik Tosun (University of Pennsylvania, USA) - "Robots Changing Their World: Environment Augmentation in Robotics"
• Vaibhav Unhelkar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) - "Enabling Effective Information Sharing in Human-Robot Teams"
• Abhinav Valada (University of Freiburg, Germany) - "Learning Reliable and Scalable Representations Using Multimodal Multitask Deep Learning"
• Anastasiia Varava (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) - "Free Space of 2D and 3D Rigid Objects: Caging, Path Non-Existence, and Narrow Passages"
• Hang Yin (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal & École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) - "Boosting Robot Learning and Control with Domain Constraints"
• Mabel Zhang (University of Pennsylvania, USA) - "Tactile-Visual Integration for Task-Aware Grasping"
• Yuke Zhu (Stanford University, USA) - "Reinforcement and Imitation Learning for Diverse Visuomotor Skills"