The Program

October 28, 2016 at UC San Diego
Presented by the Jacobs School of Engineering
Sponsored by Qualcomm

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Presentations

8:00 A.M.	REGISTRATION + CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:30 A.M.	WELCOME REMARKS
	Albert P. Pisano Dean, Jacobs School of Engineering	Matt Grob Executive VP and CTO, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
	Carol Padden Dean, Division of Social Sciences
9:00 A.M.	SPEAKERS
9:00 A.M.	Henrik Christensen Director, Contextual Robotics Institute Professor of Computer Science UC San Diego	A NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON ROBOTICS
9:30 A.M.	Frank Dellaert Technical Project Lead, Facebook Professor, Georgia Tech	FACTOR GRAPHS AS A LINGUA FRANCA IN ROBOTICS
10:00 A.M.	NETWORKING BREAK (30 MIN)
10:30 A.M.	Jorge Cortes Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering UC San Diego	ENABLING HUMAN-SWARM COORDINATION
11:00 A.M.	James Kuffner CTO, Toyota Research Institute	CLOUD ROBOTICS: INTELLIGENT MACHINES IN A CLOUD-CONNECTED WORLD
11:30 A.M.	Raj Talluri Senior VP, Qualcomm	INNOVATIONS IN VISUAL PROCESSORS FOR EMBEDDED VISION AND ROBOTICS APPLICATIONS
NOON	LUNCH (60 MINUTES)
1:00 P.M.	Liam Pedersen Principal Researcher Nissan Motor Company	SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE AI-BASED URBAN DRIVING
1:30 P.M.	Bob Touchton Chief Autonomy Scientist, Leidos	DEVELOPING AND EVALUATING SAFE NAVIGATION OF AUTONOMOUS SHIPS AT SEA
2:00 P.M.	Ayse Saygin Professor of Cognitive Science UC San Diego	SOCIAL ROBOTICS AND NEUROSCIENCE
2:30 P.M.	Closing Remarks
2:45 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.	TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE + NETWORKING RECEPTION

Technology Showcase

Coordinated Robotics	Tom Bewley Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
RUBI project and Robotic Rodent	Andrea Chiba Cognitive Science
Disaster response Northrop Grumman Autonomy Challenge Project	Jorge Cortes Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Brain-computer interface demo	Virginia de Sa Cognitive Science
Machine learning projects Northrop Grumman Autonomy Challenge Project	Rajesh Gupta and Zhuowen Tu Computer Science & Engineering Cognitive Science (respectively)
Underwater robotics and computer vision	Ryan Kastner Computer Science & Engineering
Drone Lab demos On 2nd floor of Atkinston Hall	Falko Kuester Structural Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering, and Qualcomm Institute
Human-Robot Teaming and Healthcare Robotics	Laurel Riek Computer Science & Engineering Dept.
Drones that sniff out forest fires	Tajana Simunic Rosing Computer Science & Engineering Dept
Unmanned-vehicle wildlife survey in Belize jungle	Curt Schurgers Qualcomm Institute Engineers for Exploration Program
Bioinspired robotics and design	Michael Tolley Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Autonomous Vehicle demonstrations	Mohan Trivedi Computer Vision & Robotics Research Laboratory
NanoRobotics	Joseph Wang, Yi Chen and Liangfang Zhang NanoEngineering
Snake-like surgical robots, robot motion planning and co-habitation in human environments, artificial robot muscles from sewing thread and augmented-reality surgery	Michael Yip Electrical & Computer Engineering