Participants
We are pleased to announce the 30 international PhD students and postdocs who have been accepted to this year's Pioneers Workshop.
The ordering on this page is randomized (as opposed to ordering alphabetically). Read more about biases due to alphabetical ordering.
Paloma Sodhi (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) - "Learning rich observation models for factor graph inference" - Poster
Maria Pozzi (University of Siena, Italy) - "Robotic (Collaborative) Manipulation: is it “just” a matter of interfaces?" - Poster
Ali Harakeh (University of Toronto, Canada) - "Uncertainty Estimation for Lifelong Robot Perception Systems" - Poster
Justin Yim (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) - "Limb Mechanics for Performance" - Poster
Taylor Kessler Faulkner (University of Texas at Austin, USA) - "Robots Learning from Imperfect Human Teachers" - Poster
Niveditha Kalavakonda (University of Washington, USA) - "Enabling Safe and Reliable Surgeon-Robot Collaboration" - Poster
James M Bern (MIT, USA) - "Model-Based Control and Design of Soft Robots" - Poster
Tobias Fischer (Queensland University of Technology, Australia ) - "Bio-inspired robot perception coupled with robot-modeled human perception" - Poster
Alexander Lambert (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) - "Structured and Distributed Representations for Perception and Control" - Poster
Preston Culbertson (Stanford University, USA) - "Toward Practical Collaborative Manipulation" - Poster
Yiannis Kantaros (University of Pennsylvania, USA) - "Safe Autonomy in Unknown and Communication-Denied Environments" - Poster
Micah Corah (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA) - "Active Perception for Aerial and Ground Robot Teams Operating in Unknown Environments" - Poster
Christopher Xie (University of Washington, USA) - "Discovering and Segmenting Unseen Objects for Robot Perception" - Poster
Xieyuanli Chen (University of Bonn, Germany) - "Moving Object Segmentation for LiDAR-based Localization and Mapping" - Poster
Maria Bauza Villalonga (MIT, USA) - "Visuo-tactile perception and system-level optimization for precise robot manipulation" - Poster
Yuri Feldman (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) - "Autonomous Semantic Perception in Uncertain Environments" - Poster
Brian Do (Stanford University, USA) - "Design of Variable Stiffness Soft Robots as Manipulators" - Poster
Michael Lutter (TU Darmstadt, USA) - "Inductive Biases for Robot Learning" - Poster
Yash Chitalia (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) - "Honey, I shrunk the robot: A quest to build miniature surgical robots." - Poster
Heng Yang (MIT, USA) - "Certifiable Outlier-Robust Machine Perception" - Poster
Daniel S Brown (UC Berkeley, USA) - "Leveraging Human Input for Robust Robot Learning" - Poster
Miguel S. Vasco (INESC-ID, Portugal) - "Multimodal Representation Learning for Robot Perception and Agency" - Poster
Troi Williams (University of South Florida, USA) - "Learning State-Dependent Measurement Likelihood Models with Limited Sensor Data" - Poster
Vivek shankar Varadharajan (Polytechnic of Montreal, Canada) - "Situational Awareness and Long-term Autonomy for Robot Swarms" - Poster
Héctor Azpúrua (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil) - "Towards Terrain-Aware Autonomous Exploration in 3D Confined Spaces" - Poster
Filipa Correia (INESC-ID & University of Lisbon, Portugal) - "Fostering Human-Robot Cohesion in Multi-party Settings" - Poster
Esen Yel (Univesity of Virginia, USA) - "Towards Predictive and Proactive Monitoring and Planning for Safe Autonomous Robotic Operations" - Poster
Fethiye Irmak Doğan (KTH, Sweden) - "Social Robots That Understand Natural Language Instructions and Resolve Ambiguities" - Poster
Jose Barreiros (Cornell University, USA) - "Towards ubiquitous haptics for embodied AI agents" - Poster
Wenhao Luo (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) - "Towards Safe and Resilient Autonomy in Multi-Robot Systems" - Poster