The Toronto AI in Robotics Seminar is organized by the Faculty and Students at the Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto for students across the world to present and interact with the Toronto CS Robotics Community.
Format: Opportunities for students to present their research and connect with peers from other institutions are inceasingly getting rarer. This phenomenon is sped up by low rate of oral/spotlights at top AI meetings and all events going virtual/online. This series aims to create such a platform for students to present their work in a friendly setting and get feedback and hopefully build new collaborations and network.
We meet from 1030 to 1130 EST on Mondays. See in other time zones
The meetings will be hosted on youtube with hosts/presenters using zoom (internal UofT presenters will also come to the campus at Mississauga).
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Past talks are also available on our YouTube Channel.
| Speaker | Affiliation | Date | Topic | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ayal Taitler | University of Toronto | February 13, 2023 | Stochastic Planning and Reinforcement Learning paper1, paper2 | link |
| Zhenjia Xu | Columbia University | February 27, 2023 | Deformable Object Manipulation Beyond Pick-and-Place paper1, paper2 | link |
| Sven Lilge | University of Toronto | March 6, 2023 | Continuum Robot State Estimation via Gaussian Process Regression on SE(3) | link |
| Frederike Dümbgen | University of Toronto | March 13, 2023 | Towards Globally Optimal State Estimation paper1, paper2, paper3 | link |
| Zhang-Wei Hong | MIT | March 20, 2023 | Explore and Exploit Data in Reinforcement Learning paper1, paper2 | link |
| Zhenyu Jiang | UT Austin | March 27, 2023 | Building Digital Twins of Articulated Objects and Scenes paper1, paper2 | |
| Joanne Truong | Georgia Institute of Technology | April 3rd, 2023 | Sim2Robot: Training Robots for the Real-World with Imperfect Simulators paper1, paper2, paper3, paper4 | link |
| Ahalya Prabhakar | EPFL | April 17, 2023 | Coverage-Based Control for Robot Communication and Learning paper1, paper2, paper3 | link |
| Ivan Skorokhodov | KAUST | April 24, 2023 | Generative Models for Neural Fields paper1, paper2, paper3 | link |
| Gautam Singh | Rutgers University | May 1, 2023 | Representation Learning for Systematic Generalization paper1, paper2, paper3 | link |
| Bingjie Tang | University of Southern California | May 8, 2023 | Transferring Contact-Rich Assembly from Simulation to Reality paper | link |
If you have any questions, kindly email the current organizers:
| Speaker | Affiliation | Date | Topic | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel Bruder | Harvard University | September 19, 2022 | Making Soft Robotics Less Hard: Towards a Unified Modeling, Design, and Control Framework paper1, paper2 | link |
| Nolan Wagener | Georgia Institute of Technology | September 26, 2022 | MoCapAct: A Multi-Task Dataset for Simulated Humanoid Control | link |
| Chris Denniston | University of Southern California | October 17, 2022 | Active Robot Perception for Understanding the World paper1, paper2 | link |
| S.M.Hadi Sadati | King’s College London | October 24, 2022 | Reinventing Catheters by Soft Robotics: Robotics Thrombectomy for Acute Stroke | link |
| Mohit Shridhar | University of Washington | October 31, 2022 | Acting with Perception and Language | link |
| Jun Yang | University of Toronto - UTIAS | November 7, 2022 | 6D Pose Estimation for Textureless Objects on RGB Frames using Multi-View Optimization paper1, paper2 | link |
| Jun Gao | University of Toronto | November 14, 2022 | Towards Generative Modeling of 3D Objects Learned from Images paper1, paper2, paper3 | link |
| Silviu Pitis | University of Toronto | November 21, 2022 | Generalizing Out-of-Distribution using Counterfactual Data Augmentation paper1, paper2, paper3 | link |
| Wenyuan Zeng | University of Toronto | November 28, 2022 | Neural World Models for Autonomous Driving paper1, paper2, paper3 | link |
| Mathias Gehrig | University of Zurich | December 5, 2022 | Event Cameras and How to Make Them Useful paper1, paper2, paper3 | link |
| Kourosh Darvish | University of Toronto | December 12, 2022 | Shared Autonomy: From Human-Robot Collaboration to Humanoid Robot Teleoperation paper1, paper2, paper3 | link |
| Speaker | Affiliation | Date | Topic | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mojtaba Sharifi | California State University | January 31, 2022 | Autonomous Locomotion Planning for Personalized Control of Lower-limb Exoskeletons | link |
| Melissa Greeff | University of Toronto - UTIAS | February 7, 2022 | Flying Flat Out: Fast Multirotor Flight Using Vision-Based Navigation in Real-World Environments paper 1, paper 2, paper 3 | link |
| SiQi Zhou | University of Toronto - UTIAS | February 14, 2022 | Integrating Machine Learning and Control Theory for Safe and Efficient Robot Decision Making paper 1, paper 2 | |
| Jacopo Panerati | University of Toronto - UTIAS | February 21, 2022 | Safe Learning-based Control for Robotics and Physics-based Simulation paper 1, paper 2, paper 3 | link |
| Matthew Giamou | University of Toronto | February 28, 2022 | Convex Relaxations for Geometric Problems in Robotics paper 1, paper 2, paper 3 | link |
| Antonio Loquercio | UC Berkeley | March 7, 2022 | Agile Autonomy: Learning High-Speed Flight paper 1, paper 2, paper 3 | link |
| Weiyu Liu | Georgia Institute of Technology | March 14, 2022 | Grounded Semantic Reasoning for Robotic Interaction with Real-World Objects paper 1, paper 2, paper 3 | link |
| Marija Popovic | University of Bonn | March 21, 2022 | Active Sensing with Intelligent Robots: Mapping and Planning for Robot Autonomy paper 1, paper 2, paper 3 | link |
| Kashyap Chitta | MPI & University of Tübingen | March 28, 2022 | Imitation with Transformer-Based Sensor Fusion for Autonomous Driving | link |
| Erfan Shahriari | Technical University of Munich | April 4, 2022 | The Language of Manipulation: Force/Motion Planning and Control for Tactile Robot Manipulation paper 1, paper 2, paper 3, paper 4, paper 5 | |
| Brian Okorn | Carnegie Mellon University | April 11, 2022 | Object Representations without Direct Supervision paper 1, paper 2 | link |
| Cameron Forbrigger | University of Toronto | April 25, 2022 | Tethered Magnetic Serial Robots for Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery paper 1, paper 2 | link |
| Eric Heiden | University of Southern California | May 2, 2022 | Reducing the Reality Gap in Robotics via Simulation-based Inference paper 1, paper 2 | link |
| Sven Lilge | University of Toronto | May 9, 2022 | Tendon-Driven Parallel Continuum Robots paper 1, paper 2 | link |
| Heng Yang | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | May 16, 2022 | Certifiable Outlier-Robust Geometric Perception: Robots that See through the Clutter with Confidence paper 1, paper 2 | link |
| Speaker | Affiliation | Date | Topic | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tabitha Lee | Carnegie Mellon University | October 25, 2021 | Causal Reasoning in Simulation for Structure and Transfer Learning of Robot Manipulation Policies | link |
| Lukas Brunke | University of Toronto - UTIAS | November 1, 2021 | Safe Learning in Robotics: From Learning-Based Control to Safe Reinforcement Learning | link |
| Sarah Bechtle | MPI Tuebingen | November 15, 2021 | Lifelong learning in the real world: paper 1, paper 2, paper 3 | link |
| Nikita Dvornik | University of Toronto, Samsung | November 22, 2021 | Representation Learning via Global Temporal Alignment and Cycle-Consistency | link |
| Cynthia Chen | UC Berkeley | November 29, 2021 | An Empirical Investigation of Representation Learning for Imitation | link |
| Quentin Peyron | University of Toronto | December 6, 2021 | Elastic Stability Issues in Continuum Robotics and How to Snap Out of Them: paper 1, paper 2 | link |
| Homanga Bharadhwaj | CMU | December 13, 2021 | Auditing Machine Learning and Robot Learning for Safety and Compliance during Deployment: paper 1, paper 2 | link |
| Speaker | Affiliation | Date | Topic | Recording | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin Xie / Homanga Bharadhwaj | University of Toronto | January 22, 2021 | Skill Transfer via Partially Amortized Hierarchical Planning | ||
| Ali Harakeh | University of Toronto | February 12, 2021 | Bayesian Detection | link | |
| Hazel Doughty | University of Amsterdam | February 19, 2021 | Action Modifiers: Learning from Adverbs in Instructional Videos | link | |
| Joonho Lee | ETH Zürich | February 26, 2021 | Anymal Learning | link | |
| Samarth Brahmbhatt | Georgia Tech, Intel | March 5, 2021 | Grasp contact between hand and object & associated datasets | link | |
| Maria Bauza | MIT | March 12, 2021 | Tactile Localization | link | |
| Daniel Seita | UC Berkeley | March 19, 2021 | Deformable Object Manipulation | link | |
| Krishna Murthy | Mila | March 26, 2021 | GradSLAM | link | |
| Michelle Lee | Stanford | April 9, 2021 | |||
| Georgia Chalvatzaki | TU Darmstadt | April 16, 2021 | Accelerating Robot Skill Learning with Demonstrations and Models | link |
| Speaker | Affiliation | Date | Topic | Slides | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yunzhu Li | MIT | September 4, 2020 | Koopman operators for model-based RL | link | link |
| Yana Hasson | INRIA | September 11, 2020 | Hand-Object Reconstruction | link | link |
| Ahmed Qureshi | UCSD | September 18, 2020 | Motion Planning Networks | link | link |
| Ron Dorfman | Technion | September 25, 2020 | Offline Meta RL | link | link |
| Rika Antonova | KTH | October 9, 2020 | Analytic Manifold Learning | link | link |
| Anirudh Goyal | Mila | October 23, 2020 | Recurrent Independent Mechanisms | link | link |
| Zongyi Li | Caltech | November 20, 2020 | Fourier Neural Operator for Parametric PDEs | link | link |
| Carolyn Matl | UC Berkeley | December 11, 2020 | Sim-To-Real from Sound / Material Properties for Robotic Tasks | link |