Colloquium Series

Robotics Engineering

All Robotics Engineering colloquia are from 2 PM until 3 PM on Fridays throughout the academic year at 60 Gateway, Room 1002, unless otherwise stated. Potential and actual colloquium speakers should speak to the RBE Colloquium Committee for answers to typical questions about their visit. The Colloquium Coordinators for the 2019-2020 academic year are Professors Jie Fu, Berk Calli, and Loris Fichera.

The schedule below is tentative and subject to change. Please check this page for the most up-to-date schedule.

Date	Speakers	Affiliation	Presentation
Spring 2020
Jan. 17, 2020	Dr. Megan Chrobak	Boston Scientific	The Boston Scientific Approach to Competing with Robotics
Jan. 24, 2020	Dr. Markus P. Nemitz	Postdoctoral Fellow, Whitesides Research Group at Harvard University	From Silicon to Silicone: Merging the Worlds of Hard and Soft Robotics
Jan. 31, 2020	Dr. Xiangrui Zeng	Robotics Engineering, WPI	Data-Enhanced Automotive Intelligent Control and Active Route Planning
Feb. 7, 2020	Lifeng Zhou	Virginia Tech	Resilient and Risk-Aware Multi-Robot Coordination
Feb. 10, 2020	Dr. Paul Reverdy	Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Arizona	Decision Making in Physical Contexts: From Human Supervisors to Autonomous Robots
Feb. 14, 2020	Dr. Marko B. Popovic	Physics, Biomedical, and Robotics Engineering, WPI	Wearable, Bioinspired Robots, and Universal Manipulation
Feb. 21, 2020	Mr. Kevin Harrington	Robotics Engineering, WPI	BowlerStudio: A Robotics Integrated Development Environment
Feb. 28, 2020	Dr. Loris Fichera	Robotics Engineering, WPI	Combining robotics and machine intelligence to enable advanced treatment modalities in the head and neck
Mar. 6, 2020	Dr. Akin Tatoglu	Mechanical Engineering, University of Hartford	Probabilistic Methodologies for Autonomous Mobile Robot Localization and Agile Motion Control
Fall 2019
Aug. 30, 2019	RBE Graduate Students	Robotics Engineering, WPI	What did I do this summer?
Sept. 6, 2019	Dr. Greg Lewin	Robotics Engineering, WPI	Spoofing a positioning feedback system and other cruel tricks to play on students
Sept. 13, 2019	Joyce Sidopoulos	MassRobotics	Sensor Fusion Challenge Info Session
Sept. 20, 2019	Dr. Robert Platt	Computer Science, Northeastern University	Deictic action representations for robotic manipulation
Sept. 27, 2019	Dr. Ryosuke Tsumura	Robotics Engineering, WPI	A Role of Robotics Technology in Medical Applications
Oct. 4, 2019	Dr. Roberto Tron	Mechanical Engineering Department, Boston University	Intelligent, Safe, and Dynamic Multiagent Systems
Nov. 1, 2019	Dr. Val Schmidt	Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, UNH	Autonomous Vehicles for Ocean Mapping - A Decade of Experience
Nov. 8, 2019	Dr. Lawson Wong	Khoury College of Computer Science, Northeastern University	Abstraction in robotics
Nov. 15, 2019	Dr. Pierre E. Dupont	Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School	Building Medical Robots and Devices inside a Hospital
Nov. 22, 2019	Dr. Emel Demircan	California State University, Long Beach	Human Movement Understanding for Intelligent Robots and Systems
Dec. 6, 2019	Dr. Daniel Flickinger	Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation	Unique Challenges in VTOL Autonomy
Dec. 13, 2109	Jie Fang	Mechanical Engineering, WPI	Interactive Route-Planning and Mobile Sensing with a Team of Multiple Robotic Vehicles in an Unknown Environment