RSS Pioneers 2021
ABOUT
RSS Pioneers is an intensive workshop for senior Ph.D. students and postdocs in the robotics community. Held in conjunction with the main Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) conference, each year the RSS Pioneers brings together a cohort of the world’s top early-career researchers. The workshop aims to provide these promising researchers with networking opportunities and help to navigate their next career stages, and foster creativity and collaboration surrounding challenges in all areas of robotics. The workshop will include a mix of research and career talks from senior scholars in the field from both academia and industry, research presentations from attendees and networking activities. This is the fourth RSS Pioneers workshop that will be held virtually on July 11th, in accordance with the decision of the RSS organizers.
To facilitate attendance, the workshop will provide partial support for registration for RSS Pioneers and the main RSS 2021 conference. RSS Pioneers is inspired by the format of the prestigious HRI Pioneers workshop. The first, second, and third RSS Pioneers were successfully held at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA in 2018, in Freiburg, Germany in 2019, and online in 2020 due to COVID-19 (originally scheduled to be held in Corvallis, Oregon, USA).
Interested graduate students and postdocs are encouraged to apply by following the instructions on the application page.
Important Dates
Application opens: Feb 01, 2021
Applications due: March 22, 2021 March 30, 2021 (anywhere-on-earth)
Notifications of acceptance: May 31 June 07, 2021
RSS Pioneers Workshop: (virtual) July 11, 2021
Invited Speakers
Keynote
Speakers and Panelists
(University of Toronto)
(University of Texas, Austin)
(ETH Zürich)
(University of Michigan and Refraction AI)
(Cornell University)
(Stanford University)
(NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
(Queensland University of Technology)