Philipp Michelpmichel at michel dot com |
Home Address5825 Pierce St. |
Work AddressCMU Robotics Institute |
Education2004 - 2008 |
Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, PA, USA Research: Humanoid Robotics / Computer Vision. Lab director, CMU Honda ASIMO lab. Thesis: Seeing the Future: Integrating Perception & Planning for Humanoid Autonomy GPA: 4.00/4.00 Awards: NVIDIA Fellowship, 2006 - 2007 Coursework: Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Mechanics of Manipulation, Advanced Perception, Machine Perception & Modelling of Human Behavior, Applied Research Methods, Principles of Human-Robot Interaction. Teaching: TA, 16-264: Humanoid Robotics, Fall 2005. Activities: RoboOrg Graduate Student Committee |
2003 - 2004 |
Yale University | New Haven, CT, USA Research: Social Robotics Details: Computer vision research on a humanoid robot created to study models of human social development. Applications of research to clinical studies of autism at the Yale Child Study Center. Funded by Yale University and the German National Merit Foundation. |
2000 - 2003 |
Cambridge University | Cambridge, UK Awards: Activities: |
1994 - 1999 |
Colegio Humboldt Schule | San José, Costa Rica Activities: Competitive swimming at national level, 4 years of acting. |
ExperienceAugust 2008 - present |
Goldman Sachs | Tokyo, Japan |
June - August 2007 |
UBS | Stamford, CT / New York, NY -Rotations in Quant, Electronic Volatility Trading and Derivatives Trading |
June - July 2004 |
Wolfram Research International | Concord, MA, USA Authored and optimized image processing / computer vision algorithms for the Mathematica digital image processing package. |
June - September 2002 |
Goldman Sachs International | London, UK -Re-designed the equity trading UNIX frontend for all european offices |
June - July 2001 |
Bosch AG | Bamberg, Germany Automated company-wide migration to Windows 2000 / Active Directory. Worked in server & network administration for an 8000 user production plant. |
AcademicJune 2005 - present |
AIST Digital Human Research Center | Tokyo, Japan Research: GPU-accelerated real-time 3D tracking for autonomous navigation / stair climbing on an HRP-2 Promet humanoid robot. Image- and range-based perception & mapping, motion capture, footstep planning. |
June 2003 / April 2004 |
A New Kind of Science Summer School & Conference | Providence / Boston, USA Worked under Stephen Wolfram on ‘Visualizing Learning Systems’, applying NKS research methdology to investigate basins of attraction in neural networks and symbolic systems. |
Publications |
Michel, P. (2008) Integrating Perception & Planning for Humanoid Autonomy. Ph.D. Thesis, CMU-RI-TR-08-35, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Michel, P., Chestnutt, J., Kagami, S., Nishiwaki, K., Kuffner, J. and Kanade, T. (2007) GPU-accelerated Real-Time 3D Tracking for Humanoid Autonomy. Proceedings of the JSME Robotics and Mechatronics Conference (ROBOMEC), June 2008. Michel, P., Scheurer, C., Kuffner, J., Vahrenkamp, N. and Dillmann, R. (2007) Planning for Robust Execution of Humanoid Motions using Future Perceptive Capability. Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), October 2007. Michel, P., Chestnutt, J., Kagami, S., Nishiwaki, K., Kuffner, J. and Kanade, T. (2007) GPU-accelerated Real-Time 3D Tracking for Humanoid Locomotion and Stair Climbing. Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), October 2007. Michalowski, M., Sabanovic, S. and Michel, P. (2006) Roillo: Creating a Social Robot for Playrooms. Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), September 2006. Michel, P., Chestnutt, J., Kagami, S., Nishiwaki, K., Kuffner, J. and Kanade, T. (2006) Online Environment Reconstruction for Biped Navigation. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2006. Chestnutt, J., Michel, P., Nishiwaki, K., Kuffner, J. and Kagami, S. (2006) An Intelligent Joystick for Biped Control. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2006. Stilman, M., Michel, P., Chestnutt, J., Nishiwaki, K., Kagami, S. and Kuffner, J. (2005) Augmented Reality for Robot Development and Experimentation. CMU Robotics Institute Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-05-55, November 2005. Michel, P., Chestnutt, J., Kuffner, J. and Kanade, T. (2005) Vision-Guided Humanoid Footstep Planning for Dynamic Environments. Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), December 2005. Michel, P., Gold, K. and Scassellati, B. (2004) Motion-Based Robotic Self-Recognition. Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), September 2004. Michel, P. and El Kaliouby, R. (2003) Facial Expression Recognition using Support Vector Machines. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII), June 2003. Michel, P. and El Kaliouby, R. (2003) Real Time Facial Expression Recognition in Video using Support Vector Machines. Proceedings of the Fifth Internation Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI), November 2003. |
Professional Service |
Reviewer, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2004 |
Languages |
German (native). Fluent in English, Spanish. Conversational Greek. Intermediate Japanese. |