Colloquium Series | Worcester Polytechnic Institute

The Robotics Engineering Colloquium Series hosts seminars on Wednesdays throughout the academic year, providing opportunities to explore cutting-edge topics in Robotics. Each session features speakers who share insights into the latest research, technological advancements, and industry trends. Be sure to check the Colloquium Speaker Schedule regularly to stay updated on upcoming talks and make the most of this engaging learning experience.

Colloquium Speaker Schedule

Previous Colloquium Speakers

Localization over the Dual Quaternions

Speaker: Professor Matthew Hale

Georgia Tech

📌Location: UH 520

📅 Date: April 29, 2026

🕰️Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

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Formal Methods for Robotics in the Age of Big Data

Speaker: Professor Hadas Kress-Gazit

Cornell University

📌Location: UH 520

📅 Date: April 15, 2026

🕰️Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

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Unifying the Stack: A Principled Structuralist Approach to Intelligent Robot Control

Speaker: Professor George Konidaris

Brown University

📌Location: UH 520

📅 Date: April 8, 2026

🕰️Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

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Learning a Lot from a Little: Human-Aligned Robot Learning from Structured, Imperfect Feedback

Speaker: Professor Andreea Bobu

MIT

📌Location: UH 520

📅 Date: April 3, 2026

🕰️Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

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Beyond Scaling: Exploration, Guidance, and Symmetry in Robot Perception

Speaker: Professor Kostas Daniilidis

University of Pennsylvania

📌Location: UH 520

📅 Date: February 18, 2026

🕰️Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

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Robotics, AI, and the Quest for Human-Centered Autonomous Systems

Speaker: Professor Lydia E. Kavraki

Rice University

📌Location: UH 520

📅 Date: February 11, 2026

🕰️Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

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Bidirectional Understanding In Human-AI Interaction

Speaker: Professor Henny Admoni

Carnegie Mellon

📌Location: UH 520

📅 Date: February 4, 2026

🕰️Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

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Robot Perception: Did we get it all wrong?

Speaker: Deepak Singh

WPI

📌Location: UH 520

📅 Date: January 28, 2026

🕰️Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

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Towards Autonomous Neuroendovascular Interventions

Speaker: Aabha Tamhankar

WPI

📌Location: UH 520

📅 Date: January 28, 2026

🕰️Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

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Hybrid robots: exploring aerial-aquatic locomotion with wings and physical interaction

Speaker: Professor Raphel Zufferey

MIT

📌Location: UH 520

📅 Date: December 10, 2025

🕰️Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

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Beyond Frames: Learning to Perceive With Event-Based Vision

Speaker: Professor Ziyun (Claude) Wang

Johns Hopkins University

📌Location: UH 520

📅 Date: November 12, 2025

🕰️Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

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Safe Autonomy for Soft Robots

Speaker: Professor Andrew Sabelhaus

Boston University

📌Location: UH 520

📅 Date: November 19, 2025

🕰️Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

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Semidefinite Relaxations for Robot Perception and Control: From Theory to Practice and Back

Speaker: Professor Heng Yang

Harvard University

📌Location: UH 500

📅 Date: November 6, 2025

🕰️Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM

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Neural Certificates for Safe Robotic System Planning and Control

Speaker: Professor Chuchu Fan

MIT

📌Location: UH420

📅 Date: October 30, 2025

🕰️Time: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM

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Control Barrier Functions for X

Speaker: Professor Wei Xiao

WPI

📌Location: UH 520

📅 Date: September 24, 2025

🕰️Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

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Hybrid-stiffness mechanisms at the boundary of rigid and soft robotics

Speaker: Professor Connor McCann

WPI

📌Location: UH 520

📅 Date: September 10, 2025

🕰️Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

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