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Position:
Assistant Professor
Director, Persistent Autonomy and Robot Learning (PeARL) lab
Richard A. Miner School of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Research Group:
PeARL: Persistent Autonomy and Robot Learning lab [Website]
413 Dandeneau Hall, North Campus
Prospective students: I look for motivated and experienced graduate students (Ph.D. and M.Sc.) with interests in Robot Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Imitation Learning, and Learning from Demonstration.
See open positions in PeARL website
News:
[Feb/2/2023] I will chair the Machine Vision session at ICARA-2023
[Jan/19/2023] I received an NSF CAREER Award
[Dec/8/2022] Our Amazon GBTI proposal was selected for funding
[Nov/2/2022] Two papers accepted at ICARA 2023
[Oct/24/2022] Our lab presented at IROS 2022
[Oct/23/2022] Open house tour at PeARL
[Oct/12/2022] I gave our final presentation for DESICIVE project at NERVE
[Oct/8/2022] Our lab presented 6 posters at NERC-2022
[Sep/1/2022] I will serve as an Associate Editor for ICRA-2023
[Aug/26/2022] I will co-chair the LfD 1 session at IROS-2022
[Aug/10/2022] I will co-organize NERC 2022
[June/30/2022] Our paper was accepted at IROS-2022
[May/9/2022] I serve as a Program Committee member at ICARA-2023
[Apr/9/2022] Welcome day tour at PeARL
[Apr/7/2022] I gave a guest lecture in EECE 4560/5560 Fundamentals of Robotics
[Mar/31/2021] I was the recipient of the OERscars award by MASSPIRG students.
[Feb/18/2022] Our paper was accepted at ICARA-2022
[Jan/20/2022] I serve as an Associate Editor for UR 2022
[Nov/18/2021] I gave a guest lecture in EECE 4560/5560 Fundamentals of Robotics
[Nov/15/2021] I gave a talk in inaugural Honors College 1st Year Lecture Series
[Oct/6/2021] Our paper was accepted at ICAR-2021
[Oct/3/2021] Open house tour at PeARL
[Aug/20/2021] I will serve as an Associate Editor for ICRA-2022
[July/29/2021] Our NSF AI-Institute proposal, AI-CARING, (led by Georgia Tech) was funded
[July/15/2021] Our NSF M3X proposal was funded
[June/30/2021] Our paper was accepted at IROS-2021
[May/29/2021] Our ONR proposal was funded
[April/26/2021] I was the recipient of the OERscars award by MASSPIRG students.
[Mar/26/2021] I gave a talk at The University of Leeds
[Mar/24/2021] Our paper was accepted at ALA 2021 - Workshop at AAMAS 2021
[Mar/5/2021] Our ARL proposal was funded (Cycle III seedling)
[Jan/26/2021] I will serve as an Associate Editor for UR-2021
[Jan/21/2021] Our ARL proposal was funded (STRONG Cycle II)
[Nov/18/2020] Virtual Open house event at PeARL
[Oct/30/2020] I will serve as an Associate Editor for ICRA-2021
[Oct/22/2020] Virtual Open house event at PeARL
[Oct/2/2020] Our US Army CCDC proposal was funded
[Aug/21/2020] Our paper was accepted at ICSR-2020
[Jul/27/2020] I taught a master class on "Algorithms for Search-and-Rescue Robots"
[May/20/2020] I received the KCS2020 Teaching Excellence Award
[Mar/27/2020] Our ARL proposal was funded (STRONG Cycle II seedling)
[Feb/1/2020] Welcome Day tour at PeARL
[Jan/22/2020] Two papers were accepted at ICRA-2020
[Nov/5/2019] I will serve as a PC member of AAMAS-2020
[Oct/31/2019] Haverhill high school visited PeARL
[Oct/27/2019] Open house tour at PeARL
[Oct/16/2019] Open house tour at PeARL
[Sep/15/2019] I will serve as an Associate Editor for ICRA-2020
[Jun/26/2019] Talked on the Robotics Business Review (RBR) Webcast
[Jun/15/2019] I will teach COMP5500-Robot Learning in Fall 2019
[May/22/2019] Our team won second place in the FetchIt Competition at ICRA
[May/22/2019] Presented our paper at ICRA-2019
[Mar/29/2019] I gave an invited talk at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
[Jan/30/2019] I gave an invited talk at ISEC at NorthEastern University
[Jan/26/2019] Our paper was accepted at ICRA-2019
[Jan/1/2019] I teach COMP4500-Mobile Robotics I in Spring 2019
[Dec/31/2018] Open Ph.D. positions in my lab [apply here]
[Nov/27/2018] Our journal paper on TLGC was accepted [link]
[Oct/26/2018] I gave an invited talk at the University of New Hampshire
[Oct/23/2018] I will serve as a PC member of AAMAS 2019
[Oct/14/2018] I will serve as a PC member of Robotics Track at ICAPS-2019
[Sep/19/2018] I will serve as an Associate Editor for ICRA 2019
[Sep/1/2018] I joined University of Massachusetts Lowell
[Aug/15/2018] My last day at Georgia Tech
[Aug/8/2018] I teach COMP5500-Robot Learning in Fall 2018
[Jul/26/2018] I will serve as a PC member for IEEE IRC 2019
[Jun/29/2018] Our paper was accepted at IROS 2018
[Jun/8/2018] Our workshop paper was accepted at RSS-LAIR 2018
[Jun/6/2018] I helped organizing "An evening of wonder" together with AbGradCon 2018
[May/29/2018] I attended ONR Cognitive Science and HRI Program Review
[Apr/29/2018] I served as a reviewer for CoRL 2018
[Apr/17/2018] I judged for UROP's 13th Annual Undergraduate Research Spring Symposium at Georgia Tech
[Apr/12/2018] - National Robotics Week event at Georgia Tech
[Apr/11/2018] - I presented our poster at Robotics Research Showcase at Georgia Tech
[Nov/12-14/2017] - I attend the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2017)
[Nov/9/2017] - I attend the National Robotics Initiative PI meeting
[Oct/19/2017] - I served as a PC member of AAMAS-2018
[Oct/3/2017] - I served as a PC member of Robotics Track at ICAPS-2018
[Sept/21/2017] - I received the best presentation award for 4th annual postdoctoral symposium
[Sept/21/2017] - I attended the 4th annual postdoctoral symposium, at Georgia Tech
[Sept/1/2017] - Our paper was accepted at CORL-2017.
[Aug/30/2017] - Our paper was accepted at ICSR-2017.
[Aug/16/2017] - I attended National MBA Manufacturing Summit to run a demo.
[Aug/2/2017] - I served as a PC member of IROS-2017 workshop on SBLI
[Jul/5/2017] - Our workshop paper was accepted at DDM - RSS-2017
[Jun/7/2017] - Our workshop paper was accepted at WAHRI17 - RSS-2017
[Jun/5/2017] - Our VSL journal paper is online
[Jul/12-16/2017] - I attended RSS-2017 and presented a paper
[Jun/20-22/2017] - I attended 2017 Cognitive Science & Human Interaction (ONR)
[Apr/28/2017] - Our paper was accepted at RSS-2017 (20% acc. rate)
[Mar/25/2017] - I taught CS 3630, Introduction to Robotics, in fall 2017.
[Mar/17/2017]- I gave an invited talk at ISAT Communicating Intent for Autonomy (DARPA)
[Nov/15-17/2016]- I attended Humanoids 2016 and presented a paper
[Oct/22/2016]- I served as a PC member of AAMAS-2017 Robotics Track
[Oct/20/2016]- I served as a PC member of AAAI-2017 Spring Symposium
[Jul/8-14/2016] - I attended IJCAI 2016 and presented a paper
[Jun/18-22/2016] - I attended RSS 2016 and presented a paper
[Feb/8/2016] - Our book-chapters were published.
[Jan/15/2016] - I joined IRIM at Georgia Tech.
[Nov/12/2015] - I published two book-chapters in the Robotics book: Handling Uncertainty and Networked Structures in Robot Control with Springer. The book was published on Feb/8/2016