[4eyes] No lab meeting on Monday - two talks instead

[Matthew Turk]

We have faculty candidates in both CS and MAT giving talks on Monday. Please
attend! 

 

The CS talk (at 3:30pm in the CS conference room) by Lu Wang (from Cornell)
has already been announced
(http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/news/events/lu-wang-colloquium). The MAT talk is at
5:00pm in 1605 Elings, and is by Sonia Chernova (from WPI) on human-robot
interaction and learning. Both should be of interest to the lab; please
attend one or two of them!

 

            Matthew

 

From: Matthew Turk [mailto:mturk at cs.ucsb.edu] 
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2015 1:54 PM
To: faculty at cs.ucsb.edu; grads at cs.ucsb.edu
Subject: FW: Robots that Learn from Everyday People, Sonia Chernova, Monday,
March 2, 5:00-6:30PM in Elings Hall 1605

 

I'm not sure if this made it to the regular CS colloquium list, so if not:
This is a talk on Monday at 5pm (yes, 5pm!) in 1605 Elings by a faculty
candidate in Media Arts and Technology. Sonia Chernova (PhD from CMU,
postdoc at MIT Media Lab, currently faculty at WPI) works on human-robot
interaction and learning - http://users.wpi.edu/~soniac/.

 

All are welcome!

 

From: George Legrady [mailto:legrady at arts.ucsb.edu] 
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 10:00 PM
To: George Legrady
Subject: Robots that Learn from Everyday People, Sonia Chernova, Monday,
March 2, 5:00-6:30PM in Elings Hall 1605

 

Please join us to hear a talk by Sonia Chernova, director of the Robot
Autonomy and Interactive Learning (RAIL) lab at Worcester Polytechnic
Institute. The lecture will take place on Monday, March 2 at 5:00pm in
Elings Hall, 1605. There will be a Q&A session immediately following her
presentation. 

 

Title: Robots that Learn from Everyday People

The development of collaborative robots that work alongside human users is
of critical importance for furthering industries as diverse as
manufacturing, healthcare, defense, and consumer services.  To operate
effectively in these complex domains, robots must have the ability to adapt
to user preferences and learn from user input.  In this talk, I will discuss
how my research group has leveraged innovations in cloud computing,
crowdsourcing and remote access technologies to gain unprecedented access to
data and users, fundamentally altering the way in which interactive robotic
systems are developed and deployed.  I will present applications of this
research paradigm to robot learning from demonstration, object manipulation
and semantic reasoning, as well as discuss exciting avenues for future
research in this area.

Sonia Chernova is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Robotics
Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the director of the Robot
Autonomy and Interactive Learning (RAIL) lab.  She received her Ph.D. degree
in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2009, and worked as a
Postdoctoral Associate at the MIT Media Lab prior to joining WPI.  Her
research interests span robotics, interactive machine learning, adjustable
autonomy, human computation and human-robot interaction.  Dr. Chernova's
research is supported through funding from NSF, ONR and DARPA, including the
NSF CAREER, NSF NRI and ONR YIP awards.   Her work has been covered by
national and international press, including the New York Times, National
Geographic, New Scientist, ComputerWorld, NPR and the BBC.  Among other
service appointments, she currently serves on the Steering and Program
Committees of the HRI conference and on the AAAI Executive Council.

 

George Legrady
Dept. Chair, Media Arts & Technology

Director, Experimental Visualization Lab University of California, Santa
Barbara

Phelps Hall 3309
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Cell 323-346-7619
legrady at mat.ucsb.edu

http://vislab.mat.ucsb.edu

 

 

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