Participants

We are pleased to announce the 28 international PhD students and postdocs who have been accepted to this year's Pioneers Workshop.

• Adam Conkey (University of Utah, USA) - "Representation Learning for Multisensory Perception and Planning"
• Aljosa Osep (Technical University of Munich, Germany) - "Tracking Beyond Detection"
• Andrea Bajcsy (University of California Berkeley, USA) - "Introspective Human Motion Prediction for Safe Robot Autonomy"
• Carlos Celemin (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands) - "Speeding Up Robot Learning based on Interactive Teaching"
• Changhao Chen (University of Oxford, England) - "Learning Methods for Robust Localization"
• Connor Brooks (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) - "Improving Mental Models for Shared Control"
• Eric Heiden (University of Southern California, USA) - "Closing the Sim2Real Gap using Invertible Simulators"
• Georgia Chalvatzaki (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany) - "Robot Learning of Mobile Manipulation for Intelligent Assistance"
• Gina Olson (Oregon State University, USA) - "Developing Capable Soft Robot Arms through Model-Guided Design"
• Hyunsoo Yang (Seoul National University, South Korea) - "Distributed Rotor-Based Vibration Suppression for Flexible Object Transport and Manipulation"
• Jacopo Panerati (University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies, Canada) - "Deep Reinforcement Learning in UAV Swarms"
• Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula (University of Montreal, Canada) - "∇SLAM: Automagically differentiable SLAM"
• Kyungdon Joo (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) - "Toward Natural and Realistic Social Interaction in AR/VR Space"
• Lifeng Zhou (Virginia Tech, USA) - "Security, Trustworthiness, and Long-Term Autonomy in Multi-Robot Systems"
• Maira Saboia da Silva (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA) - "Adaptive Autonomous Construction in Unstructured Environments"
• Manikandasriram Srinivasan Ramanagopal (University of Michigan, USA) - "Thermal Infrared for Robot Vision"
• Marcus Hoerger (Australian National University, Australia) - "Conscious Abstractions for Solving Decision Making Problems under Partial Observability"
• Panpan Cai (National University of Singapore, Singapore) - "Models and Algorithms for Large-Scale Planning in the Real World"
• Patrick D. Holmes (University of Michigan, USA) - "Reachable Sets for Safe Control of Wearable Robots"
• Pragathi Praveena (University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA) - "Human-Robot Interfaces for Physical Interactions"
• Rika Antonova (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) - "Transfer-Aware Kernels and Timescale Fidelity Priors from Sim to Real"
• Roberto Martin-Martin (Stanford University, USA) - "Interaction Loops in Robot Perception, Learning and Control"
• Roi Yehoshua (Northeastern University, USA) - "Decentralized Reinforcement Learning in Cooperative Multi-Agent Systems"
• Samuel Spaulding (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) - "Transferrable Student Models for Cross-task Personalization in Social Robot Tutors"
• Vasileios Vasilopoulos (University of Pennsylvania, USA) - "Reactive Mobile Manipulation with Legged Robots"
• Weiming Zhi (University of Sydney, Australia) - "Probabilistic Learning of Motion Patterns"
• Wil Thomason (Cornell University, USA) - "Robust, Efficient, and Flexible Robot Planning"
• Yu She (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) - "Towards Safe and Performant Robots"