School of Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412.268.8525
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION careers@cs.cmu.edu
PENG CHANG
- Expected Completion: May 2002
- Advisor: Martial Hebert
- Thesis Topic: Robust Tracking and Structure from Motion for Robot Navigation
- Research Interests:To apply computer vision and machine learning techniques to solve real world problems related to robotics, multimedia, etc.
- Citizenship: China
- Email: peng.chang@ri.cmu.edu
MATTHEW DEANS
- Expected Completion: December 2001
- Advisor: Martial Hebert
- Thesis Topic: Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Using a Bearing-only Sensor
- Research Interests:I am interested in computer vision and nonlinear state estimation, and specifically their applications in intelligent robotic systems for the exploration of space, underwater, high atmosphere, and other remote and hazardous environments.
- Citizenship: USA
- Email: deano@ri.cmu.edu
- Telephone: 412.268.7075
M. BERNADINE DIAS
- Expected Completion: September 2002
- Advisor: Anthony (Tony) Stentz
- Thesis Topic: A Market Approach to Multirobot Coordination
- Research Interests: Field robotics, Multi-robot/agent coordination, dealing with dynamic environments
- Citizenship: Sri Lankan
- Email: mbdias@ri.cmu.edu
- Telephone: 412.268.7086 (W), 412.268.5895 (Fax)
ALEX FOESSEL
- Expected Completion: December 2001
- Advisor: William "Red" Whittaker
- Thesis Topic: Scene Modeling from Motion-Free Radar Sensing
- Research Interests: Field robotics, unmanned ground vehicles, mmw-radar perception, robot perception
- Citizenship: Chilean
- Email: mfoessel@cmu.edu
- Telephone: 412.681.9527 (W)
TERRY FONG
- Expected Completion: November 2001
- Advisor: Chuck Thorpe
- Thesis Topic: Collaborative Control: A Robot-Centric Model for Vehicle Teleoperation
- Research Interests: Human-computer interfaces, embedded software systems, Web-based systems and architectures, field and planetary robotics
- Notes: Currently completing thesis research and residing in Lausanne, Switzerland. Would be especially interested in work involving international collaboration or project development.
- Citizenship: USA
- Email: terry@cs.cmu.edu
- Telephone: +41 (21) 693.78.14, Fax: +41 (21) 693.65.40
DANIEL HUBER
- Expected Completion: Spring 2002
- Advisor: Martial Hebert
- Thesis Topic: Automatic 3D Modeling from Range Images (working title)
- Research Interests: 3D Computer Vision, Mobile Robotics and architectures, field and planetary robotics
- Citizenship: USA
- Email: dhuber@cs.cmu.edu
MARTIN C. MARTIN
- Expected Completion: September 2001
- Advisor: Hans P. Moravec
- Thesis Topic: The Simulated Evolution of Robot Perception
- Research Interests: Robotics, Embodied Perception, Genetic Algorithms
- Notes: Looking for an academic position in Canada, Europe or Australia.
- Citizenship: Canada
- Email: martin@metahuman.org
DANIEL NIKOVSKI
- Expected Completion: December 2001
- Advisor: Illah Nourbakhsh
- Thesis Topic: Learning Probabilistic Models for Robot Control
- Research Interests: My primary interest is in applications of optimal control, where the model of the controlled system is learned from observation data. In terms of general research areas, I am interested in machine learning and optimal control.
- Notes: Although I would prefer to do research, I would also consider system development and/or technical management positions.
- Citizenship: Bulgarian
- Email: danieln@cs.cmu.edu
- Telephone: 412.268.4860
JEFFREY SMITH
- Expected Completion: June 2002
- Advisors: Jessica Hodgins, Irving Oppenheim
- Thesis Topic: Automatic Gait Synthesis for Legged Creatures (tentative title)
- Research Interests: Human and animal motion synthesis, non-photorealistic rendering, physically based animation and modelling
- Email: jeffrey+@cs.cmu.edu
STELLA X. YU
- Expected Completion: July 2002
- Advisors: Jianbo Shi, Tai Sing Lee
- Thesis Topic: Computational Models of Perceptual Organization
- Research Interests: Computer vision, biological vision, pattern recognition, machine learning, data mining, signal processing
- Notes: I am looking for a position in academia or a research lab.
- Citizenship: China
- Email: stella.yu@cs.cmu.edu
- Telephone: 412.268.1420 (W), 412.268.6436 (Fax)