The Program

October 30, 2015 at UC San Diego
Presented by the Jacobs School of Engineering

Each invited speaker will give a talk followed by Q&A. Extended networking breaks enable maximum interaction among participants.

All talks will take place in the main auditorium in Atkinson Hall.

Schedule

8:00 A.M.	Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 A.M.	Remarks
		Matt Grob CTO Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
		Tom Pieronek Vice President of Basic Research Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
		Carol Padden Dean Division of Social Sciences
		Albert P. Pisano Dean Jacobs School of Engineering
9:00 A.M.	Speakers
	The Emerging Era of Embodied Cognitive Systems	Rob High VP & CTO, Watson Solutions IBM Software Group
	Robotics: Big Opportunities and Big Challenges	Todd Hylton Executive Vice President Brain Corporation
10:00 A.M.	Networking Break (30 min)
	Healthcare Delivery: From Flesh and Bones to Bits and Bites	Yulun Wang Chairman & CEO of InTouch Health
	Robotics and Entrepreneurship	Paolo Pirjanian Entrepreneur Former CTO of iRobot
	Humanizing Robotic Vehicles	Mohan Trivedi Electrical Engineering Prof. Computer Vision and Robotics Research Laboratory Laboratory for Safe & Intelligent Automobiles UC San Diego
12:00 P.M. - 1:00 P.M.	Lunch	.
	How Surgical Robotics will Change our Future	Jonathan Sorger Senior Director of Medical Research Intuitive Surgical
	Dynamic Legged Robots	Marc Raibert President Boston Dynamics
2:00 P.M.	Technology Showcase / Networking Break (45 min)
	Cognitive Engineering	Andrea Chiba \| Todd Coleman Cognitive Sciences Prof. \| Bioengineering Prof. UC San Diego
	mproving the Hotel Guest Experience with Robots	Steve Cousins CEO Savioke
3:45 P.M.	Closing Remarks
4:00 P.M.	Reception / Technology Showcase Cont'd

Technology Showcase

NORTHROP GRUMMAN AUTONOMY CHALLENGE PROJECT	Enabling Human-Swarm Interaction for Disaster Response Operations	Jorge Cortes Sonia Martinez Multi-Agent Robotics Lab
NORTHROP GRUMMAN AUTONOMY CHALLENGE PROJECT	Adaptive Planning in Multi-Agent Systems	Balakrishnan Narayanaswamy UC San Diego Computer Science
NORTHROP GRUMMAN AUTONOMY CHALLENGE PROJECT	Rapid Contextual Scene and Language Understanding	Zhuowen Tu Machine Learning and Perception Lab
NORTHROP GRUMMAN AUTONOMY CHALLENGE PROJECT	Real-time Object Detection for Robotic Platforms	Nuno Vasconcelos Statistical Visual Computing Lab
	Coordinated Robotics: Inspiration, Education, and Environmental Sensing	Thomas Bewley Coordinated Robotics Lab
	Instrumented Medical Mannequins Motivated by Robot Programming by Human Demonstration	Nate Delson Mechanical Engineering Design Center
	3-D Printable Robotics	Falko Kuester Kuester Labs and Research
	Developing Intelligent Technologies for Remote Sensing and Ecology	Albert Lin Ryan Kastner Curt Schurgers Engineers for Exploration Program
	Mobile Brain / Body Imaging (MoBI)	Scott Makeig Tzyy-Ping Jung The Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience
	RUBI-PAL (Perception, Action & Learning): Social Robots in Early Childhood Education	Javier Movellan Machine Perception Lab
	Gadgetron: Making Robot Design Easier	Steven Swanson
	Bioinspired Robotics: Soft Robots and Self-Folding Swarms	Mike Tolley Bioinspired Robotics and Design Lab
	NanoRobotics	Joseph Wang Laboratory for Nanobioelectrics
	Medical Applications for Robotics (Surgical & Prosthetics) Posters	Michael Yip Advanced Robotics and Controls Lab

October 30, 2015

The Program

October 30, 2015 at UC San Diego Presented by the Jacobs School of Engineering

Schedule

8:00 A.M.

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 A.M.

Remarks

Matt Grob

Tom Pieronek

Carol Padden

Albert P. Pisano

9:00 A.M.

Speakers

The Emerging Era of Embodied Cognitive Systems

Rob High

Robotics: Big Opportunities and Big Challenges

Todd Hylton

10:00 A.M.

Networking Break (30 min)

Healthcare Delivery: From Flesh and Bones to Bits and Bites

Yulun Wang

Robotics and Entrepreneurship

Paolo Pirjanian

Humanizing Robotic Vehicles

Mohan Trivedi

12:00 P.M. - 1:00 P.M.

Lunch

How Surgical Robotics will Change our Future

Jonathan Sorger

Dynamic Legged Robots

Marc Raibert

2:00 P.M.

Technology Showcase / Networking Break (45 min)

Cognitive Engineering

Andrea Chiba | Todd Coleman

mproving the Hotel Guest Experience with Robots

Steve Cousins

3:45 P.M.

Closing Remarks

4:00 P.M.

Reception / Technology Showcase Cont'd

Technology Showcase

Enabling Human-Swarm Interaction for Disaster Response Operations

Jorge Cortes Sonia Martinez

Adaptive Planning in Multi-Agent Systems

Balakrishnan Narayanaswamy

Rapid Contextual Scene and Language Understanding

Zhuowen Tu

Real-time Object Detection for Robotic Platforms

Nuno Vasconcelos

Coordinated Robotics: Inspiration, Education, and Environmental Sensing

Thomas Bewley

Instrumented Medical Mannequins Motivated by Robot Programming by Human Demonstration

Nate Delson

3-D Printable Robotics

Falko Kuester

Developing Intelligent Technologies for Remote Sensing and Ecology

Albert Lin Ryan Kastner Curt Schurgers

Mobile Brain / Body Imaging (MoBI)

Scott Makeig Tzyy-Ping Jung

RUBI-PAL (Perception, Action & Learning): Social Robots in Early Childhood Education

Javier Movellan

Gadgetron: Making Robot Design Easier

Steven Swanson

Bioinspired Robotics: Soft Robots and Self-Folding Swarms

Mike Tolley

NanoRobotics

Joseph Wang

Medical Applications for Robotics (Surgical & Prosthetics) Posters

Michael Yip

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October 30, 2015 at UC San Diego
Presented by the Jacobs School of Engineering

Jorge Cortes
Sonia Martinez

Albert Lin
Ryan Kastner
Curt Schurgers

Scott Makeig
Tzyy-Ping Jung